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Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. The filing cabinet emerges here as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today's digital world.

It's not rational -- The standard narrative and the bigger picture -- Natural science inspirations -- The nobels and neoliberals -- The socialist calculation controversy as the starting point of the economics of information -- Hayek changes his mind -- The neoclassical economics of information was incubated at cowles -- Three different modalities of information in neoclassical theory -- Going the market one better -- The history of markets and the theory of market design -- The walrasian school of design -- The Bayes-Nash school of design -- The experimentalist school of design -- Hayek and the schools of design -- Designs on the market : the FCC spectrum auctions -- Private intellectuals and public perplexity : the TARP -- Artificial ignorance

"All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively as tools to augment their work and private lives and that they used facts to help shape how the nation evolved during these fourteen decades. He argues that information's role has long been a critical component of the work, play, culture, and values of this nation, and no more so than during the twentieth century when its function in society expanded dramatically. While elements of this story have been examined by thousands of scholars---such as the role of radio, newspapers, books, computers, and the Internet, about such institutions as education, big business, expanded roles of governments from town administration to the state house, from agriculture to the services and information industries---All the Facts looks at all of these elements holistically, providing a deeper insight into the way the United States evolved over time. An introduction and 11 chapters describe what this information ecosystem looked like, how it evolved, and how it was used. For another vast layer of information about this subject the reader is directed to the detailed bibliographic essay in the back of this book. It includes a narrative history, case studies in the form of sidebars, and stories illustrating key points. Readers will find, for example, the story of how the US postal system helped create today's information society, along with everything from books and newspapers to TV, computers, and the Internet. The build-up to what many today call the Information Age took a long time to achieve and continues to build momentum. The implications for the world, and not just for the United States, are as profound as any mega-trend one could identify in the history of humankind. All the Facts presents this development thoroughly in an easy-to-digest format that any lover of history, technology, or the history of information and business will enjoy"--

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Remembering "Information" European Documentation: Paul Otlet and Suzanne Brier Information Theory, Cybernetics, and the Discoure of "Man" Pierre L,y and the "Virtual" Heidegger and Benjamin: The Metaphysics and Fetish of Information Conclusion: "Information" and the Role of Critical Theory Notes Works Cited Index

The Internet that lesbians built : paper newsletter networks -- Calling to talk and listening well : information as care at telephone hotlines -- The indexers : dreaming of computers while shuffling paper cards -- Feminist digitization practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives -- Epilogue: Doing lesbian feminism in an age of information abundance.

Information history as a research topic -- How to understand information ecosystems and infrastructures in firms and industries -- Studying history as it unfolds: computing's history, 1970-2017 -- The information ecosystems of national diplomacy: Spain, 1815-1936 -- Information ecosystems of American homemakers in Madison county, Virginia, 1950-1995 -- International sales information ecosystems: IBM, 1920s-1980s -- How people and organizations learned about information: computer science and their users, 1945-1975 -- Tiny information ecosystems and infrastructures: genealogists and family historians -- The case for information ecosystems and infrastructures and lessons learned.