Economics of Cyberspace

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Economics of Cyberspace

Meeting Information

Location: Skinner, Room 216

Days: Tuesday

Time: 1:15-3:50 p.m.

Faculty

Name: Satya J. Gabriel

Faculty Information

Email: mailto:sgabriel@mtholyoke.edu

Extension: (413) 538-2818 (leave a message; speak slowly and clearly, make sure to leave your name)

Office: Skinner, Room 118

Office Hours: M W 12:40-2:220 p.m.

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Technical Information

Course Level:

Course Number: ECON 349

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Course Description:This course explores the impact of the Internet on finance, commodity and labor markets, intellectual property rights, provision of government services and tax/fee collections, and a wide range of other economic activities. We investigate whether Cyberspace and related technologies represent the inauguration of a new epoch, with implications for the creation of new economic (and social) relationships and requiring new economic theories. We also examine the continuing struggle between governments and Internet-related or supporting businesses and individuals over regulation of Cyberspace and examine the possibility that governments may short-circuit some of the beneficial aspects of Cyberspace.