Background
Owen, Bruce Manning was born on October 13, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John W. and Barbara (Manning) D.
( After a half-century of glacial creep, television tech...)
After a half-century of glacial creep, television technology has begun to change at the same dizzying pace as computer software. What this will mean--for television, for computers, and for the popular culture where these video media reign supreme--is the subject of this timely book. A noted communications economist, Bruce Owen supplies the essential background: a grasp of the economic history of the television industry and of the effects of technology and government regulation on its organization. He also explores recent developments associated with the growth of the Internet. With this history as a basis, his book allows readers to peer into the future--at the likely effects of television and the Internet on each other, for instance, and at the possibility of a convergence of the TV set, computer, and telephone. The digital world that Owen shows us is one in which communication titans jockey to survive what Joseph Schumpeter called the "gales of creative destruction." While the rest of us simply struggle to follow the new moves, believing that technology will settle the outcome, Owen warns us that this is a game in which Washington regulators and media hyperbole figure as broadly as innovation and investment. His book explains the game as one involving interactions among all the players, including consumers and advertisers, each with a particular goal. And he discusses the economic principles that govern this game and that can serve as powerful predictive tools.
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(Video Economics is a rigorous yet accessible analysis of ...)
Video Economics is a rigorous yet accessible analysis of the economics and business strategies of the television industry. Owen and Wildman identify the complex chain of program producers, distributors, and retailers whose objectives are to obtain viewers in order to sell them to advertisers, to charge them an admission fee, or both. They address the major issues affecting competitive advantage in the industry as well as such concepts as public good, economics of scale, and price discrimination. With each topic they present the economic tools required to analyze the industry.
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Owen, Bruce Manning was born on October 13, 1943 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John W. and Barbara (Manning) D.
Bachelor, Williams College, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1970.
Chief economist White House Office Telecommunications Policy, 1971-1972. Assistant professor economics Stanford University, 1973-1978. Associate professor business and law Duke University, Durham, 1978-1980.
Chief economist Antitrust division United States Department Justice, 1979-1981. President Economists Inc., Washington, 1981—2003. Visiting professor economics Stanford in Wasington, 1989-2002, Gordon Cain senior fellow Stanford University Institute for Economic Policy Research, since 2003, Morris M. Doyle Centennial professor in public policy and director public policy program, Stanford University, since 2005.
( After a half-century of glacial creep, television tech...)
(Video Economics is a rigorous yet accessible analysis of ...)
(Book by Owen, Bruce M., Braeutigam, Ronald)
(Book by Owen, Bruce M)
Member American Economic Association.
Married Josetta Knopf, June 19, 1965. Children: Peter Brandon, Bradford Kelly.