情報ネットワーク経済社会における「生産」の民主化と「ゆたかさの経済」の成立

抄録

In the network economymy, information goods have extremely low reproduction costs, do not diminish with use, and can be combined with existing goods to create goods of even greater value by adding slight modifications or combinations. This paper shows that this property is widely applicable to the market exchange of "non-information goods," and that the democratization of "production" and the materialization of "prosumers" arise in the information network economy, moving toward an "economy of abundance. The "long tail" is taken up as an example of this phenomenon.