Economics of Public Information Systems
Publisher: Akademitryck, Edsbruk
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Stockholm, Sweden
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 205
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION; title: PART I: SOCIAL EVALUATION OF LARGE EDP SYSTEMS IN GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION; title: 1 Introduction ∣ 1; title: 2 Government and EDP ∣ 3; title: 3 The Decision Situation ∣ 7; title: 4 Principles for Social Evaluation ∣ 13; title: 5 The Social Consequences of Investments in EDP ∣ 16; title: 5.1 The Identification Model; title: 5.2 Classifying Initial Consequences; title: 5.3 Social Evaluation During Developing Phases; title: 6 Questions of Implementation ∣ 24; title: 7 Conclusions ∣ 28; title: PART II: TOWARDS A NORMATIVE THEORY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEMS; title: 1 Introduction ∣ 1; title: 2 The Economics of Public Policy ∣ 3; title: 3 The Essence of Public Administration ∣ 10; title: 4 The Administrative System in a Public Agency - Some Model Exercises ∣ 20; title: 4.1 Assumptions about the Agents in the Model; title: 4.2 Case I - Agency and Court as one Administrative System; title: 4.3 Case II - Exogenous Court with Non-binding Budget; title: 4.4 Case III - Exogenous Court with Binding Budget; title: 4.5 Discussion; title: 5 The Technology of the Administrative System ∣ 61; title: 5.1 The Information Processing Network - An Overview; title: 5.2 Information Processing by a Node; title: 5.3 Information Processing by the Network; title: 6 Network Structures for Analytical and Empirical Studies ∣ 73; title: 6.1 Assumptions about Resource Use in the Network; title: 6.2 Assumptions about Transformations in the Network; title: 6.3 Assumptions about the Reaction Sphere; title: 6.4 Assumptions about the Target Function; title: 6.5 Assumptions about the Surround; title: 6.6 Specifying the Model from Section 4.2; title: 6.7 Discussion; title: 7 Conclusions ∣ 85; title: PART III: PROFITABILITY ESTIMATES IN SEQUENTIAL SYSTEM DESIGN; title: 1 Introduction ∣ 1; title: 2 Sequential Choice ∣ 4; title: 2.1 Single-Stage Decision Problems; title: 2.2 Multi-Stage Decision Problems; title: 2.3 Multi-Choice Decision Problems; title: 2.4 Truncated Decision Problems; title: 2.5 A General Framework; title: 3 Public EDP Design as a Sequential Choice Problem ∣ 32; title: 3.1 The Choice Model; title: 3.2 An Example; title: 3.3 Discussion; title: Appendix: A Formal Presentation of the Choice Model; title: 4 The Meaning and Value of Delegation ∣ 53; title: 4.1 The Government Rules for System Design; title: 4.2 The Meaning of Delegation; title: 4.3 The Value of Delegation; title: 4.4 The Accuracy of an Investigator; title: 5 Profitability Estimates in Delegated Investigations ∣ 66; title: 5.1 The Meaning of Profitability Estimates; title: 5.2 Desired Properties of Profitability Estimates; title: 6 Conclusions ∣ 72; title: REFERENCES