The Right to Tell: the role of mass media in economic devlopment/
The World Bank
- 1st Ed.
- Washington: The World Bank, 2002.
- ix, 322 p.: ill. ; 26cm.
- WBI development studies. .
"World Bank Institute"--Couv.
1. Into the looking glass : what the media tell and why--an overview / Roumeen Islam --
PART I: 2. Transparency in government / Joseph Stiglitz -- 3. Mass media and political accountability / Timothy Besley, Robin Burgess, and Andrea Prat -- 4. The media and markets in the United States / Edward S. Herman -- 5. Irrational exuberance in the media / Robert J. Shiller -- 6. Distributing news and political influence / David Strömberg -- 7. The corporate governance role of the media / Alexander Dyck and Luigi Zingales -- 8. Media ownership and prosperity / Simeon Djankov [and others] -- 9. Media as industry : economic foundations of mass communications / Bruce M. Owen -- 10. The legal environment for news media / Peter Krug and Monroe E. Price -- 11. Insult laws / Ruth Walden -- 12 Media in transition : the hegemony of economics / Tim Carrington and Mark Nelson --
PART II: 13. The best profession in the world / Gabriel García Márquez -- 14. The media and access to information in Thailand / Kavi Chongkittavorn -- 15. The media and development in Bangladesh / Mahfuz Anam -- 16. How the Cairo Times came to be published out of Cyprus / Hisham Kassem -- 17. The role of the media in Zimbabwe / Mark G. Chavunduka -- 18. Journalism after Communism : ten commandments for a good journalist / Adam Michnik -- 19. The survival of a provincial television station in an era of enormous changes / Victor Muchnik and Yulia Muchnik.
Index
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Mass media -- Economic aspects. Communication in economic development. Economic development -- Information services.