Wintransfer Download. A distinguishing feature of the information era is the saliency of people's attention as a scarce resource. Unlike an earlier time when information was a valuable resource, its easy availability has shifted the focus to the limited bandwidth that people can devote to ubiquitous media and news. With this in mind, we introduce an.Missing. Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to.