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| fixed length control field | 03688nam a2200505 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 7862436 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220712204900.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 170308s2016 maua ob 001 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780262336253 |
| -- | MyiLibrary |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| -- | hardcover : alk. paper |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 020 |
| 100 1# - AUTHOR NAME | |
| Author | Sarokin, David, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Missed information : |
| Sub Title | better information forbuilding a wealthier, more sustainable future / |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 PDF (viii, 251 pages) : |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Information is power. It drives commerce, protects nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals get the information they truly need to make well-informed decisions. Faulty information and sub-optimal decision-making create an imbalance of power that is exaggerated as governments and corporations amass enormous databases on each of us. Who has more power: the government, in possession of uncounted terabytes of data (some of it obtained by cybersnooping), or the ordinary citizen, trying to get in touch with a government agency? In Missed Information, David Sarokin and Jay Schulkin explore information -- not information technology, but information itself -- as a central part of our lives and institutions. They show that providing better information and better access to it improves the quality of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.Sarokin and Schulkin argue that freely flowing information helps systems run more efficiently and that incomplete information does just the opposite. It's easier to comparison shop for microwave ovens than for doctors or hospitals because of information gaps that hinder the entire health-care system. Better information about such social ills as child labor and pollution can help consumers support more sustainable products. The authors examine the opacity of corporate annual reports, the impenetrability of government secrets, and emerging techniques of "information foraging." The information imbalance of power can be reconfigured, they argue, with greater and more meaningful transparency from government and corporations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Prevention. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Schulkin, Jay, |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=7862436 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| -- | The MIT Press, |
| -- | [2016] |
| 264 #2 - | |
| -- | [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : |
| -- | IEEE Xplore, |
| -- | [2016] |
| 336 ## - | |
| -- | text |
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| 337 ## - | |
| -- | electronic |
| -- | isbdmedia |
| 338 ## - | |
| -- | online resource |
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| -- | Description based on PDF viewed 03/08/2017. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Decision making. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Errors |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Freedom of information. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Information policy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Information services. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Transparency in government. |
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