By Lester D. Taylor (auth.), James Alleman, Áine Marie Patricia Ní-Shúilleabháin, Paul Rappoport (eds.)

This quantity grew out of a convention equipped by way of James Alleman and Paul Rappoport, performed on October 10, 2011 in Jackson gap, Wyoming, in honor of the paintings of Lester D. Taylor, whose pioneering paintings widespread and industry research has had profound implications on examine throughout a large spectrum of industries. In his Prologue, Eli M. Noam notes that call for research within the details region needs to realize the “public reliable” features of media items and networks, whereas considering the consequences of interdependent consumer habit; the robust cross-elasticities in a industry; in addition to the phenomenon of provide developing its personal call for. the second one Prologue, by way of Timothy Tardiff and Daniel Levy, focuses extra particularly on Taylor’s physique of labor, particularly its sensible purposes and value in analyses of, and practices inside of, the data and Communications expertise (ICT) region (known in Europe and in different places because the Telecommunications, Media, and expertise (TMT) sector). the rest of the ebook is equipped into 4 components: Advances in idea; Empirical purposes; Evidence-Based coverage purposes; and a last end. The e-book closes with an Appendix through Sharon Levin and Stanford Levin detailing Taylor’s contributions utilizing bibliometrics. not just that includes chapters from amazing students in economics, technologies, and know-how, this quantity comprises contributions at once from Lester Taylor, supplying exact perception into economics from an entire life within the field.

“What a useful publication! each utilized researcher in communications encounters Lester Taylor’s paintings. Many empirical workouts in communications can hint their roots to Taylor’s pioneering examine and his considerate management. This publication assembles a powerful set of individuals and contributions to honor Taylor. No shock, the gathering extends all over the place into the various center themes of communications and media markets. The emphasis is the place it's going to be–on vital and novel study questions knowledgeable by means of important information. —Shane Greenstein, Professor of administration and technique, Kellogg college of administration, Northwestern University

“For greater than forty years, Lester Taylor has been a pace-setter within the software of client modeling, econometric suggestions and microeconomic info to appreciate residential and enterprise consumer habit in telecommunications markets. in the course of that point, he encouraged a cadre of scholars and associates who utilized this powerful blend to deal with severe company and

regulatory concerns bobbing up within the telecommunications quarter. This quantity collects the new made from lots of those comparable researchers and several devotees who transcend empirical research of mounted line carrier through extending Prof. Taylor’s method of the following wave of companies and applied sciences. those contributions, together with new papers by way of Prof. Taylor, provide a chance for the following iteration to profit from his paintings because it grapples with the urgent problems with client call for within the swiftly evolving electronic economy.” — Glenn Woroch, Adjunct Professor of Economics, college of California, Berkeley