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.

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