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A review essay on books by (1) George Soros, The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered (New York: Public Affairs, 1998); & (2) Carl Shapiro & Hal R. Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Information Economy (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1999). Soros presents an academic treatment of the status of economics & of the international political economy. Shapiro & Varian offer a practical guide to corporate strategy in the information age. The books describe the new global economy & the need for a new kind of economics in order to understand it. They determine that the new global economy is normative & offer ways for business people & citizens to work within it. The main themes of both books are that the economy is changing in both good & bad ways & that economics can only describe what is occurring. E. Larsen

This article presents a set of techniques to measure and analyse the structure of the information economy of a country using input‐output methods. Published national data bases for many countries fail to identify the information economy and the focus has been on the measurement of conventional sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and services. However, it is now widely recognised that the information sector is emerging as a major force in the restructuring and growth of many economies in the world. The measurement and analysis of this information economy is invaluable for proper policy formulation in this information age. The article demonstrates the operational nature of the techniques proposed herein, by their application to Australia and a few developing economies in the Pacific.

INTRODUCTION: Health Information Economy (HIE) is one of the broader, more complex, and challenging and yet important topics in the field of health science that requires the identification of its dimensions for planning and policy making. The aim of this study was to determine HIE concept dimensions. METHODS: This paper presents a systematic methodology for analyzing the trends of HIE. For this purpose, the main keywords of this area were identified and searched in the databases and from among 4775 retrieved sources, 12 sources were studied in the field of HIE. RESULTS: Information Economy (IE) in the world has passed behind four paradigms that involve the information evaluation perspective, the information technology perspective, the asymmetric information perspective and information value perspective. In this research, the fourth perspective in the HIE was analyzed. The main findings of this research were categorized in three major groups, including the flow of information process in the field of health (production. collection, processing and dissemination), and information applications in the same field (education, research, health industry, policy, legislation, and decision-making) and the underlying fields. CONCLUSION: According to the findings, HIE has already developed a theoretical and conceptual gap that due to its importance in the next decade would be one of the research approaches to health science.