M.U. Porat(with M.R. Rubin for some volumes), The Information Economy, 7 volumes (Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977).
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Blaise Cronin, Post-industrial society: some manpower issues for the library/information profession, J. Information Sci.7(1) (1983) 1-14.
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E.B. Parker and Marc Porat, Background report, Proc. OECD Conference on Computer/Telecommunications Policy, Paris, February 1975 ( OECD, Paris, 1975) 87-131.
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Mary J. Huston , Fee or free: the effect of charging on information demand, Library J. (September 1979) 1811-1814.
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A. broad view of Information Technology was taken by A.E. Cawkell in: The paperless revolution: forces controlling the introduction of electronic information systems, Wireless World 84 (1511/1512) (1978) 38-42, 69-74, reprinted in: Tom Forrester (Ed.), The Microelectronics Revolution (Basil Blackwell, 1980), and (in Russian) in Znaniye Publication Number 12, Moscow (1979). An up-date is in press to be published in Wireless World entitled: Moving towards the information society: technology, politics, and infrastructures.
