id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15860 Winter, Michael F. Lanham, Richard A. The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 312p. alk. paper, $29 (ISBN 0226468828). LC 2005-22857. 2007-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1935 88 49 Ronald Day, assistant professor of library and information science at Wayne State University, offers a provocative in- terpretation of the significance of Briet’s views and their implications for today’s information scientists. Originally taken for granted as an intangible add-on to production and dis- tribution, information and knowledge are now recognized by economists as key ad- ditions of value, and further as values in their own right. cache/crl-15860.pdf txt/crl-15860.txt