ICT research, the new economy, and the evolving discipline of economics: Back to the future?

Abstract

Economics-related ICT research has moved from the fringes of the discipline to penetrate all of its branches. It is, therefore, not a separate economics subdiscipline. It is also unlikely to become part of an "ICT or Internet research" proto-discipline. Instead, it should be seen as only one part of a bigger agenda toward a proper "information and knowledge economics" and possibly a future proto-discipline of a "unified theory of information and knowledge" or a meta-discipline of information sciences. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Inc.