This paper demonstrates how modern technologies, especially the Internet, are transforming the nature of the service sector, leading to extensive resource reorganizations and integrations, and fundamentally challengin...This paper demonstrates how modern technologies, especially the Internet, are transforming the nature of the service sector, leading to extensive resource reorganizations and integrations, and fundamentally challenging traditional theories on service-based economy, e.g., the assumption that the service sector is inefficient no longer holds true, it is difficult for the neoclassical price theory to explain service price formation and people's consumption rationality has changed. Meanwhile, economic issues associated with the Internet, such as Internet economics, platform economics and information product pricing, also need to be investigated. Theoretical research and innovations also need to be carried out to investigate questions like how to protect privacy without preventing the use of data, as well as the complexities of "cultural and psychological consumption."展开更多
文摘This paper demonstrates how modern technologies, especially the Internet, are transforming the nature of the service sector, leading to extensive resource reorganizations and integrations, and fundamentally challenging traditional theories on service-based economy, e.g., the assumption that the service sector is inefficient no longer holds true, it is difficult for the neoclassical price theory to explain service price formation and people's consumption rationality has changed. Meanwhile, economic issues associated with the Internet, such as Internet economics, platform economics and information product pricing, also need to be investigated. Theoretical research and innovations also need to be carried out to investigate questions like how to protect privacy without preventing the use of data, as well as the complexities of "cultural and psychological consumption."
