# Attention economy
- Herbert A. Simon
- psychologist, economist, and Nobel Laureate
- “a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention”
- Micheal Goldhaber, 1997
- argued a shift from material-based economy to an attention-based economy
- commonly referred to as "[[Economy, information|information economy]]" but argues that information isn't scarce, unlike attention
Reading
- [Berkeley Economic Journal: Paying Attention: The Attention Economy (2022)](https://econreview.berkeley.edu/paying-attention-the-attention-economy/)
- [nngroup – The Attention Economy](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/attention-economy/)