The Micro Electronics of Macro Economic Crisis Eli Noam Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information September 5, 2009
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The Micro Electronics of Macro Economic Crisis Eli Noam Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information September 5, 2009
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Regulation
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Beyond Orthodoxy 15 15
In Australia, “Department of Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy”. In France, a “Minister of State for development of the Digital Economy’” Korea: “Ministry of the Knowledge Economy”
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Gordon Moore and Eli Noam Moore’s Law Gordon Moore and Eli Noam Eli M. Noam, Hardware
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Business cycles are not new: -- The 7 fat years in Egypt followed by the 7 lean years Joseph in Egypt (http://www.sschool.com/children/puzzle/joseph1.jpg)
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Ineffective Regulation 34 34
Price Deflation 35 35
Characteristic #1 of Information: Usually extremely high fixed costs and low marginal cost . Expensive to produce, cheap to reproduce
Fundamental economic characteristic #2 of Information: Excess Supply
Characteristic #3 of Information: Price Deflation
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Conclusions We have met the enemy, and it is us We have met the enemy, and it is us The info society operates with somewhat different fundamental characteristics. And this makes traditional macro tools ineffective But micro electronics also provides new tools for macro economics. Unbundle macro. De-mass macro.