The Economist in Lab Coat

(translated from Italian by Elena Volpato)

The book describes, through examples, the application of information technology to the economy to carry out computer simulations with forecast and experimental purposes and – novelty introduced – to carry out experiments of economics in conditions close to those of the real world. The text shows that the Data Processing Centre – the set of people and information technology on which IT services are based – is a small-scale model of the nation and can therefore be used as a real laboratory to find solutions to problems unemployment caused by high automation and disintermediation.

Language: English

Publisher: Aracne (January, 2021)

http://www.aracne-editrice.it/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825537635

ECONOMATICA

L'economia nel computer

This book aims to highlight the common elements between economics and computer science, and to propose a vision that unifies the production of goods and information. The book is aimed at computer scientists who want to acquire new methods for evaluating the performance of electronic computers; economists who want to experiment economic theories in conditions close to those of the real world; economics and computer science students looking for ideas for their thesis. The book is structured in three parts. The first part invokes the concepts and models of macroeconomics, the second part describes the mainframe computers and Data Processing Center, the third part is the heart of the book: by using economic methods and tools (seen in the first part), it describes the process of data processing in the same way as the goods production process. As will be seen, the production of digital goods (information) is identical to the production of physical goods, and the Data Processing Center can be considered as a small–scale model of a nation.

Language: Italian

Publisher: published by the Author (July, 2011)

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