Information and Comunication in the contemporary capitalism

Abstract

This article intends to present some elements for the study of the role of the Computer Sciences in the formation and in the modalities of market operation. At first, a theoretical analysis tries to define the theoretical bias which enables the distinction between orthodoxy and heterodoxy. Then it tries to see how these different theoretical positions analyse the nature of prices in relation to information and how they conceive the operation of market/market operation. Second, it will show how, in a heterodox analysis, it is possible to define the function assumed by the Sistemas de Informação e de Comunicação (Communication and Information Systems) in the global capitalism, in terms of formation and of the concrete modalities of market operation.