Download or read book Handbook on the Economics of the Internet written by Johannes M. Bauer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-27 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet is connecting an increasing number of individuals, organizations, and devices into global networks of information flows. It is accelerating the dynamics of innovation in the digital economy, affecting the nature and intensity of competition, and enabling private companies, governments, and the non-profit sector to develop new business models. In this new ecosystem many of the theoretical assumptions and historical observations upon which economics rests are altered and need critical reassessment.