Eli Noam

thumb|Eli Noam, 2013 Eli Noam (born August 22, 1946) is a professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business School. He is the director of the Columbia University Institute for Tele-Information. Quotes We need to recognise that the entire information sector—from music to newspapers to telecoms to internet to semiconductors and anything in-between—has become subject to a gigantic market failure in slow motion. A market failure exists when market prices cannot reach a self-sustaining equilibrium. The market failure of the entire information sector is one of the fundamental trends of our time, with far-reaching long-term effects, and it is happening right in front of our eyes. Eli Noam in: "Eli Noam: Market failure in the media sector" at news.ft.com, February 16 2004 The context of this quote was a digression on the media, telecommunication, information technology, and internet industries. External links Noam at the web site of the Institute for Tele-Information Category:Economists from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:Jews from the United States Category:People from Jerusalem Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from the United States