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Attention Economy

An economic framework treating human cognitive attention as a scarce commodity to be captured, held, and sold to advertisers. The term was formalized by Michael Goldhaber (1997) and Richard Lanham (2006), building on Herbert Simon's 1971 insight about attention scarcity in information-rich environme

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