Information Economics

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Joshua Blumenstock

Assistant Professor
Alumni (PhD 2012)

Development Economics, Data Science, Machine Learning, Econometrics, ICTD

John Chuang

Professor

Bio-sensory computing; brainwave authentication; information economics and policy

Steven Weber

Faculty Director, Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and Professor (I School and Dept. of Political Science)

International politics, international business, and the information economy; Cybersecurity; Behavioral economics within Information Systems

Recent Publications

Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities that Enable It

Sep 26, 2009

Legally Speaking: The dead souls of the Google book search settlement

Jul 1, 2009

Exploring Digital Content in the Age of Peer-to-Peer

Jul 1, 2009

Universal Access to Information

Oct 1, 2005

Information Economics news

Josh Blumenstock Awarded NSF Career Award for ‘Welfare-Centric’ Machine Learning

Mar 18, 2020

The award will support Blumenstock’s work on a new paradigm of algorithmic decision-making that prioritizes social impact.

Chris Hoofnagle Explains Shoshana Zuboff’s ‘Surveillance Capitalism’

Dec 11, 2019

Deirdre Mulligan Wary of “Unknown Fund” and Blockchains

Nov 14, 2019

Bloc by Bloc. Image courtesy of Harvard University Press.

Steven Weber Deconstructs the Future, Bloc by Bloc

Oct 22, 2019

In his newly published book, Bloc by Bloc, Professor Steven Weber explores the future of the global enterprise as international tensions reach new heights.

Steven Weber on the Decaying Tech Ties Between U.S. and China

Oct 14, 2019

Concerns regarding Beijing's censorship and human rights record continue to disrupt tech-industry ties between the U.S. and China.

Hal Varian Named AEA Distinguished Fellow

Apr 30, 2015

Hal Varian, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Information, has been named a 2015 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association.

Why Surveillance Leads to Government Corruption

Jul 11, 2014

Once a pervasive surveillance infrastructure is in place, a government will always have an incentive to abuse that power, according to new research.

I School's First Endowed Chair Will Be the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics

Jan 19, 2012

The School of Information is delighted to announce the creation of its first endowed chair, the Hal R. Varian Chair in Information Economics, thanks to a generous gift from Hal R. Varian, the founding dean of the I School and now the Chief Economist at Google, with matching funds from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Joshua Blumenstock Wins Braunstein Prize for Best Student Research Paper

Dec 16, 2011

Blumenstock’s research measures how person-to-person financial transfers via mobile phone affect the risk and income volatility of the agriculturally-based economies of rural Rwanda.

New Grant Supports Josh Blumenstock's Research on "Mobile Money" and the 2008 Rwandan Earthquake

Aug 5, 2011

Blumenstock is analyzing a database of every interpersonal monetary transfer over Rwanda's primary telecom network from 2005-2009, including over 1 billion transfers and phone calls by 1 million individuals.