【摘要】 分析信息资源化的原因,认为信息资源的经济特性体现在其稀缺性、成本结构、自然垄断性、体验性消费、公共产品特性、柠檬市场效应以及外部效应等方面;指出信息资源的经济特性,使图书馆的信息资源配置模式成为一种公平而有效的资源配置模式;而信息商品市场机制由于垄断性、柠檬市场效应等原因导致资源配置的非效率和非公平;认为研究信息资源的经济特性,将有助于设计更有效的信息资源配置模式。更多还原

【Abstract】 This paper demonstrates why information has been recognized as resources. Then it analyzes the economic attributes of information resources, in terms of scarcity, cost structure, natural monopoly, characteristics of public goods and externality. This makes it possible for us to explain why information resources are produced and how they are consumed and exchanged. Moreover, this paper points out that libraries become one of successful models that allocates information resources efficiendy and fairly because of the specific economic attributes. Correspondingly, the market mechanism may fail in allocating information resources and, instead, infest monopoly, moral hazard and pirates. Consequently, it can also help us to design some more efficient mechanism of allocating information resources.更多还原