Info/Eco
Selected References & Resources (Historic - Current)
The following list of books, papers, articles, tools and web sites is selective and incomplete. Numerous additions and updates could be made. Contact and suggestions are most welcome.
The Use of Knowledge in Society, F.A. Hayek, American Economic Review, 1945 http://www.econlib.org/library/essays/hykknw1.html
Science and Information Theory, L. Brillouin, Academic Press, 1956
What is Life, Mind and Matter, Edwin Schrodinger, 1967
Energy and Information, Myron Tribus & Edward C. McIrvine, Scientific American, Sept. 1971
The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Harvard U. Press, 1971
The Value and Demand for Information, Kenneth Arrow, in Decision and Organization, McGuire and Radner, eds, 1971
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson, Chandler Pub., 1972
Capitalism and Material Life: 1400-1800, F. Braudel, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973
The Social Framework of the Information Society, Daniel Bell, (in) The Computer Age: A Twenty Year View, MIT Press, 1979
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, Lewis Hyde, Vintage Books, 1979
From Being to Becoming, Ilya Prigogine, W.H. Freeman & Co., NYC, 1980
Economics, Ecology, Ethics, Herman E. Daly, Ed., Freeman, Pub’s., 1980
Communication and Information Economics, Meheroo Jussawalla and Helene Ebenfield, ed’s., North & Holland/Elsevier Pub’s., 1984
Information and the Crisis Economy, Herbert I. Schiller, Oxford U. Press, 1986
Evolution, Thermodynamics and Information, Jeffrey S. Wicken, Oxford U. Press, NYC, 1987
Evolution as an Entropy Driven Process: An Economic Model, Joseph H. Vogel, Systems Research, Vol. 5, No. 4, (Economics Dep’t, U. of Southern MS), 1988
The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics, Hazel Henderson, 1988
Ecology, Community and Lifestyle, Arne Naess, (translation/ed., David Rothenberg), Cambridge U. Press, 1989
Defining Information, An Approach for Policymakers, Sandra Braman, Telecommunications Policy, Sept. 1989
Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information: The Proceedings of the 1988 Workshop, Wojciech Zurek, Ed., Santa Fe Institute Bulletin, 1989
Towards an Information Ecology, Rafael Capurro, 1989 http://www.capurro.de/nordinf.htm
Information Economics: Threatened Wreckage or New Paradigm?, Donald Lamberton, Working Paper, CIRCIT, AU, 1989/90
Bionomics, Michael Rothschild, Holt, Pub’s., 1990
Information and the Internal Structure of the Universe, Tom Stonier, Springer-Verlag, 1990
Information and the Origin of Life, Bernd-Olaf Kuppers, MIT Press, 1990
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Elinor Ostrom, Cambridge University Press, 1990
The Tree of Knowledge, H.R. Maturana and F.J. Varela, Shambala, 1992
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Neil Postman, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992
The Way: An Ecological World View (Appendix 2: What is Information?), Edward Goldsmith, U. of GA Press, 1992/1998
The Epistemological Revolution: Competitive strategies and tactics in a time of innocent conspiracies, Thomas A. Robertson, DC, 1992/2000 http://dieoff.org/page139.htm
Economic Values and the Natural World, David W. Pearce, MIT Press, 1993
Quantum Communication, David Deutsch, Center for Quantum Computation, Oxford U., Physics World, June 1993 http://www.qubit.org/library/intros/comm/comm.html
The Economics of Information: A Users Guide, Roger G. Noll, (Economics Dep’t, Stanford U.), Annual Review of Institute for Information Studies, 1993-94
The Economy of Ideas: Selling Wine Without Bottles on the Global Net, John Perry Barlow, Wired, March 1994 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/economy.ideas_pr.html
Information, Entropy and Progress: A New Evolutionary Paradigm, Robert U. Ayers, AIP Press, NYC, 1994
Public and Private Domains of Information: Defining the Legal Boundaries, Anne Wells Branscomb, ASIS, 1994
The Genesis of Infotoxin, Jeff Phillips, 1996 http://www.zmag.org/interactive/content/display_item.cfm?itemID=3124
Economics and Information: Toward a New (and More Sustainable) Worldview, Robert E. Babe, U. of Ottawa & Concordia U., Canadian Journal of Communications, 1996 http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/cjc/backissues/21.2/babe.html
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (vol. 1-3), Manuel Castells, Blackwell Pub’s., 1996
Information Ecology (position paper for the PROBE think tank at the McLuhan Program, UofT), Felix Stalder, 1997; w/ reply by Blake Harris http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/infoeco.html
Information Ecology (section for the Recommendations for Actions and Commitments at Earth Summit II: NGO background paper), 1997 http://www.infohabitat.org/csd-97
The Value of the World’s Ecosystem Services & Natural Capital, Robert Costanza, et al, Nature, Vol. 387, No. 6230, 1997
Places to Intervene in a System, Donella H. Meadows, Whole Earth Review, Winter 1997 http://www-dev.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/109.html
Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment, Thomas Davenport, Oxford U. Press, NYC, 1997
New Rules for the New Economy, Kevin Kelly, Viking, 1998
Ecology of Information Exchanges, Rene Passet, Prof. Emerite d’Economie, U. Paris-I Sorbonne, 1998
Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart, Bonnie Nardi and Vicki O’Day, MIT Press, 1999 http://www.calterra.com/infoecologies
The Touchstone of Life: Molecular Information, Cell Communication and the Foundations of Life, Werner R. Loewenstein, Oxford U. Press, 1999
Agents in Decentralised Information Ecosystems: The DIET Approach, P. Marrow, et. al. 1999
How Much Information?, School of Information Management and Systems, UC Berkeley, 2000 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/how-much-info/summary.html
The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid, Harvard Business School Press, 2000 http://www.sociallifeofinformation.com
Eco-Economy, Lester Brown, Earth Policy Inst., W.W. Norton & Co., 2001
Economics and Culture, David Trosby, Cambridge U. Press, 2001
Who Owns the Sky: Our Common Assets and the Future of Capitalism, Peter Barnes, Island Press, 2001
The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information, B. Huberman, MIT Press, 2001
The Battle Over the Institutional Ecosystem of the Digital Environment, Yoshai Benkler, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 44, No. 2, Feb. 2001 http://www.benkler.org/cacm.pdf
Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth, David Bollier, Routledge, 2002 http://www.silenttheft.com
What is Life: The Evolution of Information from Quantum Flux to the Self, Ernest Rossi, 2002 http://www.ernestrossi.com/what_is_life.htm
Denationalization: Economy and Polity in a Global Digital Age, Saskia Sassen, Princeton U. Press, 2003
Information: The New Language of Science, Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004
Valuing Ecosystem Services: Toward Better Environmental Decisionmaking, National Research Council, 2004 http://books.nap.edu/catalog/11139.html
Lords of Cyberspace: The Return of the Rentier, Roberto Verzola, (Philipines), World Social Forum, Mumbai, India (from Towards a Political Economy of Information, FNS Pub’s), 2004
Information Ecology: Open System Environment for Data, Memories and Knowing, Karen S. Baker and Geffrey C. Bowker, 2005
Time, Money and Biodiversity, Geoffrey Bowker, 2005 http://weber.ucsd.edu/~gbowker
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets, Goetzmann and Reuwenhorst, Ed’s., Oxford U. Press, NYC, 2005
Media Ecologies: Material Energies in Art and Technoculture, Matthew Fuller, MIT Press, 2005
CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy, R.A. Ghosh, Ed., MIT Press, 2005
Information Ecologies, Nathan Shedroff http://www.nathan.com/projects/current/ie.html
Information Ecology, Robert Pollard http://www.information-ecology.net
Conjoint Analysis (What is?) http://www.dssresearch.com/toolkit/resource/papers/CR01.asp
Agent-Based Modeling, Marco A Janssen, Internet Encyclopaedia of Ecological Economics http://www.ecoeco.org/publica/encyc.html
EcoSwarm (ecological modeling software), Humboldt State U. http://wwwhumboldt.edu/~ecomodel/software.htm
SAGE-P (System for Accounting for Global Entropy Production), Anthony Friend, 2005 http://www.cansee.org/cdocs/2005/19/SAGE-P.pdf
Ecoinformatics Collaboratory, Gund Institute of Ecological Economics, U. of VT http://ecoinformatics.uvm.edu/projects/projects.html
Ecosystem Valuation http://www.ecosystemvaluation.org
Information Ecology, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_ecology
Information Economics, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_economics