new economy

After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away

by Doug Henwood  · 9 May 2005  · 306pp  · 78,893 words

by the frequent reminders that we're in a state of permanent war. There was something aberrational about the late 1990s, for sure, but the New Economy moment was a manic set of variations on ancient themes, all promoted from the highest places. Presidents and treasury secretaries restructured economies, encouraged by

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1850s"; nineteenth- and early-twetieth-century growth rates were pretty ripping by modern standards. 0 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 Articles containing the phrase "new economy" in the New York Times and Washington Post, 1980-2003. Figure for 2003 annualizes data through July 9 Novelty According to economic historian Angus Maddison

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president of SMR. Rampant borrowing continued through the recession that began in March 2001, with low interest rates prompting enormous home-equity withdrawals. After the New Economy And the issue of the private sector's unique and ineffable contribution to technological development is one of the most mystified aspects of U.S

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remains generally free from inflationary pressures and imbalances. And the businessmen who run the show frilly expect their trouble-free prosperity to continue. After the New Economy The underlying factor behind this remarkable performance, so bafiling to the European traditionalists, has been a sharp rise in productivity. The magazine went on

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," writes Shiller, "is not...the reality of the Internet revolution, which is hard to discern, but rather the public impressions that 26 After the New Economy the revolution creates. Public reaction is influenced by the intuitive plausi-bihty of Internet lore.. .."And there was no shortage of appeals to intuitive plausibihty

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apparently weightless, placeless capital thoroughly unmoored firom the real.The world money of the 19th century, gold, though quite tangible, nonetheless 28 After the New Economy circulated without the imprint of any state; today's nonphysical monies need state entities Hke central banks and the IMF to guarantee and regulate them

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and his colleagues wanted to Hberate the company from the merely physical world and enter the magical realm of the weightless corporation. 34 After the New Economy where value is created not through production but through inventing and trading complex financial instruments and thinking big thoughts. As Lay told The Economist

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in June 2000, "We were a new-economy company before it became cool." And The Economist agreed, while worrying a bit about Enron's "hubris." Enron started slowly, at first just trading

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gas and electricity. But as the 1990s progressed, and New-Economy thinking reached the irrationally exuberant phase, it got into trading more exotic things, like advertising time, telecommunications bandwidth, and even weather derivatives. (Yes, weather

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, it's creative and fiin! Unstable? Nah, that's just its miraculous dynamism at work!'^ Which is, perversely, a way of saying that the New Economy discourse appeals to Utopian impulses in these largely anti-utopian times. It would be nice if organizations could be made nonhierarchical, work be made spontaneous

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"fun," it's because the normal discipHnes of capitalist profitmaking didn't prevail in the sector's early days. But another function of the New Economy discourse was apologetic and/or disciplinary. In an article on union battles with Verizon Communications over the growth of the firm's nonunion operations, particularly

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as Adrian Lucas of the Zurich-based financial software house Actant AG put it in an unpublished interview with the Dutch journalist Geert Lovink, the New^ Economy discourse "is primarily a form of disciplining entrants to the labour market. By allowing a few very young people to quickly become paper multi-miUionaires

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total factor (or multifactor). Labor productivity looks at human labor as its only input; a broader measure, called total factor or multifactor productivity After the New Economy (abbreviated TFP and MFP respectively) also include raw materials, energy, and the services of capital equipment among the inputs, as well as the synergies

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complex derivatives, pointless hysterectomies, and compulsive Htigation reaUy products that should enter the national accounts with plus signs in front of them? 44 After the New Economy Indifferent to all these theoretical concerns, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the agency that produces the national income accounts, says that

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Productivity has raced far ahead of pay for decades. The pay measure here includes fringe benefits. Data for 2003 is first quarter. 46 After the New Economy drug makers also benefit from health insurance, sometimes more than sick poHcyholders). Excluding fringes and looking just at direct pay, overall productivity rose four

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. Dale Jorgenson and Kevin Stiroh (2000a) concede that "The apparent combination of slow productivity growth and heavy computer use remains an important obstacle for new economy proponents who argue that the use of information technology is fundamentally changing business practices and raising productivity throughout the U.S. economy." Their own study

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new things might make it seem like product proUferation has increased lately, but the pace of innovation has actually slowed considerably. Similarly,Triplett argues. New Economy partisans point to vast recent improvement in cars as greatly reducing their effective price—^but in fact, the improvement in cars early in the 20th

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has been paid to the great blessings of technology in improving the quaUty of products and hves, less has been paid to its downside. As New Economy bible Business Week confessed in a cover story, "service stinks" (Brady 2000). Customer satisfaction with airHnes, banks, stores, hotels, phones, and PCs has dechned

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1994, and the number of consumer complaints economywide more than doubled. The complaints are mainly about areas where infotech was supposed to 56 After the New Economy be working such wonders: inaccurate information, slow (or no) response time, and poor training of customer service reps. Perversely, infotech is in good part

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economists believe it anyway. A closer look at OHner and Sichel's (2000a, 2000b) work—the intellectual foundation for a lot of Greenspan's New Economy booster-ism—shows how intensely sensitive to assumptions and technique these exercises are. For example, in the introduction to their paper, they suggest that a

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in productivity growth. ReconciHation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new economy position." Also, all the upbeat studies find that much of the productivity blip can be traced to high levels of investment in information technology

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national average. The social payoff of productivity accelerations in each of these fields—assuming McKinsey s estimates are right—deserves some thought. 66 After the New Economy The contribution of the brokerage industry to productivity was mainly web-based trading; how much that contributes to human welfare is debatable. The more

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inteUigence. The real economic value of a diploma is that it proves that you've learned how to report cheerfully for duty. 76 After the New Economy Writing in the California Management Review, Peter Cappelli (1995) asked, "Is the 'Skills Gap' Really About Attitudes?" and carefully answered his own question: "Yes."

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hypertension (theorized to be more prevalent among blacks than whites, also for genetic reasons). Low incomes, unpleasant occupations, and sustained discrimination may result After the New Economy in apparently physical symptoms that confuse even sophisticated biomedical scientists (Muntaner et al. 1997; Krieger and Sidney 1996). Higher incomes are also associated with lower

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the IRS, something the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) does periodically An examination of the CBO data by the Center on Budget 90 After the New Economy and Policy Priorities (Shapiro and Greenstein 1999) summarized in the following table shows that while the top fifth of the income distribution has done very

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(1985) surmised, women's devotion to housework lowers the effort they put into market work, and therefore (justifiably) lowers their pay. 98 After the New Economy There are some other interesting approaches to testing the reaHty of discrimination without getting into the complexities of statistical wage modeHng. A study of graduates

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that lighter skin means higher pay and otherwise "superior life chances." Similar results obtain with Latinos (l)arity ant! Mason 1998).'" TOO After the New Economy Finally, job-applicant experiments exploring racial discrimination have come up with results similar to those cited for gender. In one study (cited in Darity and

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poverty line is a pretty undemanding benchmark. As the report's subtide said, "America's Full-Time Working Poor Reap Limited Gains in the New Economy." Inclusion of "the New Economy" isn't just PR spin; as the report points out, "an increase in the relative share of low-skill employment is one characteristic

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their net worth, not their stockholdings. Many rich people, especially older ones, may be more interested in preserving capital or generating current 123 After the New Economy income than in maximizing the growth in their wealth, so they may hold bonds instead. If you sort households by their stockholdings (excluding pension),

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early 1990s, then showing a near-vertical ascent in the late 1990s—though "globalization" saw its point of inflection around 1995, three years before the New Economy, and it's shown more staying power. "GlobaUzation," both in elite and common speech, is a pretty spongy concept. Like many deeply ideological words,

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writing in The American Prospect, Mark Greif (2001) reported on a focus group, held for corporate clients worried about the antiglobalization backlash. Thirty After the New Economy 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 19 articles containing word "globalization' 1990 1995 2000 ordinary Americans were gathered together in a

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rally, promoted the exuberant mood, and provided the cash to keep things going. New Economists would argue that conventional measures of profit- After the New Economy profit rate, 1952-2002 nonfinancial corporations 07o ''■'■■"''' 1952 1958 1964 1970 1976 1982 1988 1994 2000 ability shown here—^profits divided by the value of

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Dexter White from the United States, thought it important to insulate countries fi-om the pressures of international capital markets. Quaintly, the 220 After the New Economy point of national economic policy was thought to be the encouragement of full employment, and, in the eyes of Keynes and White, free international

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signs that many of the world's people, even a few Americans, are getting annoyed with it. Conclusion What comes after the New Economy? Of course, there's always some new economy. But the intoxicating miracles of the late 1990s—20% annual stock returns, the democratization of ownership and work, fantasies of the end

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with excessive discipline—the intensification of competition and savaging of social protections of the last twenty-five years. It's tempting to read the New Economy era as the ecstatic cHmax of neoHberalism—that poHtical restructuring of the world that began with the onset of the Thatcher andVolcker regimes in 1979

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New York Times, June 25. Greenspan, Alan (1988). "Goods Shrink and Trade Grows," Wall Street Journal, October 24, p. 12. (2000). "Structural change in the new economy," speech to the National Gov- ernors' Association, 92nd Annual Meeting, State College, Pennsylvania, July 11 <www.bog.frb.fed.us/BoardDocs/Speeches/2000/20000711 .htm

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Luddite" (interview with Kirkpatrick Sale), Wired 3.06 (June) <wv;^w.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/saleskeUy.html>. (1999). New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (NewYork: Penguin USA). Kennedy,Bnace P., Ichiro Kawachi, and Deborah Prothrow-Stith (1996)."Income Distribution and Mortality: Cross

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15. Tomkins, Richard (2001). "Brands Are the New Religion, Says Ad Agency," Financial Times, March 1, p. 4. Triplett, Jack E. (1999). "Economic Statistics, the New Economy, and the Productivity Slowdown," Business Economics, April, pp. 13-17 <www.brookings.org/es/research/ productivity/Trip4_99. pdf>. Udesky, Laurie (1994). "The 'Social Responsibility

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Family Gap' in Pay for Women wdth Children," Journal of Economic Perspectives 12 (Winter), pp. 137—56. Webber, Alan M. (2000). "New Math for a New Economy" [Interview with Baruch Lev], Fast Company 0anuary),pp. 217—24 <wv^n^.fastcompany.com/online/31/lev.html>. Whelan, Karl (2000)."Computers, Obsolescence, and Productivity

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189-190 Baudrillard,Jean, 26 Becker, Gary, 94, 97 BeUo,Walden, 185 benefits, targeting of, 141-142 Berle,Adolph,212,213 bibhometrics "globahzarion," 145—146 "New Economy," 4 biotechnology, pubUc subsidy, 6 Biotic Baking Brigade, 239 birth weight, 81 Blodget, Henry, 195 Boesky, Ivan, 214 Bono, 177 book value, 232 border cultures

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, 202 Brown & Co., 187 Buchanan, Pat, 151,173, 239 Burbach, Roger, 175 business, trust in, 32 Business Week cheerleading 1960s, 7-8 1990s, 32 New Economy poll, 31—32 California electricity crisis, 34,200 Silicon Valley income distribution, 105 Index California Public Employees Retirement System, 214 capital, measuring, 57 capitalism collective

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59—60 deregulation, 152 derivatives, 192 development finance, changes in, 222 differentiahst racism, 172 DiFranco,Ani, 183 263 direct investment, 176—177 discrimination, 94—101 New Economy and, 101-103 international comparisons, 101-102 diversity, lack of, 233 dividends, source of, 203 domestic labor, 29 Dornbusch, Rudi, 3 downsizing, 215 drug

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for, 17—22,232 intellectual property, 229, 231 interest, source of, 203 International Fonim on Globalization, 160-162 Internet bubble, natural history, 188-189 and New Economy, 24—26 public subsidy, 6 IQ, corporate America's, 21-22 irrational exuberance, 7 Jameson, Fredric, 27-28 Jencks, Christopher, 75 Jensen, Michael, 203

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Ownership, 126-127 Negative Population Growth, 162 Negri, Antonio, 180-186 neoracism, 172—173 Netherlands, tuHp mania in, 23 Netscape, 189 New Deal, 207 New Economy bibliometrics, 4 Business Week poll, 31-32 classic statements of, 231 definition, 3—4 did it exist?, 36-38,227 ideological fiinction, 38 Internet and

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167 polarization, 29, 225; see also income distribution; wealth distribution pohtics of finance, 202-207 267 and income distribution, 79—81 market democracy, 22 polls New Economy, 31—32,231 poverty and, 110 Pope, Carl, 162 pop culture, stock market and, 187 portfolio investment, 176 Porto Alegre, 185 potential GDP, 47

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis

by Anatole Kaletsky  · 22 Jun 2010  · 484pp  · 136,735 words

another systemic crisis, in 2007-09. The argument of this book is that this crisis is creating a fourth version of the capitalist system, a new economy as different from the designs of Reagan and Thatcher as those were from the New Deal. Hence the birth of a

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new economy in the subtitle of this book. The concept of capitalism as an evolutionary system, whose economic rules and political institutions are subject to profound change,

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stability is automatic, involuntary unemployment is impossible, and efficient, omniscient markets can solve all economic problems, if only the government will stand aside. In the new economy emerging from the 2007-09 crisis, the self-serving assumptions of efficient, self-stabilizing markets have been discredited, but something will have to be put

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will be a guiding principle of the new theories competing for leadership in the intellectual marketplace during the next phase of economic thinking. In the new economy emerging from the 2007-09 crisis, all participants will recognize that the markets and the government are both liable to be wrong. In a world

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lower than they otherwise would, not just for the sake of a temporary postrecession stimulus but also as a permanent fact of life in the new economy. Very low interest rates are the best way to keep demand and supply in balance in an economy where savings are structurally high. Low interest

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to rapidly expand, as populations get older and economic activity becomes increasingly dependent on knowledge, advanced technology, and culture. Health, education, and pensions are the new economy’s Commanding Heights. In postcrisis capitalism, with the government destined to play a much bigger role in the economy through demand management and financial regulation

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American Banking crises overview Sweden (1990s) See also Financial crisis of 2007-09 Banking/financial markets accounting bonuses capital structures guarantees and as indispensable in new economy regulation taxpayer protection and Bankruptcy, national defaults developing countries (1980s) myth on Russia Barro, Robert Bear Stearns sale/effects Behavioral finance (boom-bust cycle theory

Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy

by Callum Cant  · 11 Nov 2019  · 196pp  · 55,862 words

Notes 9 Conclusion The Politics of Parties and the Conditions of Struggle Birdsong Notes Index End User License Agreement Riding for Deliveroo Resistance in the New Economy Callum Cant polity Copyright © Callum Cant 2020 The right of Callum Cant to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance

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book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Cant, Callum, author. Title: Riding for Deliveroo : resistance in the new economy / Callum Cant. Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “What is life like for workers in the gig economy? Is

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workers’ point of view, all kinds of previously invisible phenomena come into view. Deliveroo – which looks on the surface like the shiny model of a new economy – is revealed to be based on a class composition that’s prone to explosions of struggle. An atomized workforce of hundreds of couriers spread across

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success

by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer  · 13 Jul 2020  · 372pp  · 101,678 words

OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND OTHER KEY LESSONS FROM INDUSTRIALS INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHORS Guide Cover Title Page Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success Page List a b i ii iii iv v vi vii viii ix x

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row seat for the market’s two-decade-old obsession with disruption, digital transformation, market dominance, and cultish leadership. But as the era of the “new economy” shows early signs of maturation, the question becomes, What companies will endure and continue to grow—and how? The answer comes from an unlikely place

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in the coming environment—will equip you with the insights, strategies, and tactics to ensure that you count your organization among the winners in this new economy. CHAPTER 1 GENERAL ELECTRIC PART I The Jack Welch Years and the Cash Flow Machine That Created the Largest Company on Earth BY SCOTT DAVIS

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on the future. With all these bets paying off, the 1990s were immensely profitable for GE. Other industrial companies struggled to remain relevant in the new economy of the internet, and yet GE found ways to capture headlines. In the emerging cult of the CEO, Welch became the archetype celebrity leader. He

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performance began to fall short of targets. Cultural convictions were very firmly entrenched and never questioned loudly enough until it was too late. Today’s new economy firms may be especially vulnerable to simple, rigid incentive plans, as they tend to favor highly ambitious and narrowly focused or even singular goals earlier

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that managers were allowed to sell such product lines to Extant is crazier than anything TransDigm has ever done. Many companies, especially those in the new economy, can learn an important lesson about value creation from the TransDigm/Extant example. At technology companies, growth is often emphasized above anything else. However, abandoning

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with competition, creating tens of thousands of good jobs, and professionalizing a scattered and entrepreneurial industry along the way. There is a lesson for the new economy here. Designing a breakthrough software app at Uber created an industry, but managing an extremely large, asset-intensive chain is something else, and the costs

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even software, healthcare, and other high-margin-type offerings. The companies with continuous improvement cultures win out almost every single time. In the short term, “new economy” firms might neglect operations to maximize innovation or the customer base, but we see this as a mistake. The earlier a company can adopt Lean

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some facet of it every day. It’s a fairly obvious trait when you get to know it. What does all this mean for the new economy? As industries age and competition deepens, newer companies that lack operational discipline will fall, just as hundreds of old economy leaders have done. Feedback loops

Retirementology: Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy

by Gregory Brandon Salsbury  · 15 Mar 2010  · 261pp  · 70,584 words

RetirementologySM Rethinking the American Dream in a New Economy Gregory Salsbury, Ph.D. Vice President, Publisher: Tim Moore Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing: Amy Neidlinger Executive Editor: Jim Boyd Editorial Assistant: Pamela Boland

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—Japan Pearson Education Malaysia, Pte. Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Salsbury, Gregory B. (Gregory Brandon) Retirementology : rethinking the American dream in a new economy / Gregory Salsbury. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-13-705653-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-13-705653-2

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy

by Daniel Gross  · 7 May 2012  · 391pp  · 97,018 words

.simonspeakers.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gross, Daniel, 1967- Better, stronger, faster : the myth of American decline … and the rise of a new economy / Daniel Gross. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. United States—Economic policy—2009- 2. United States—Foreign economic relations. 3. United States—Commerce

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problems came from abroad: attract new capital through foreign direct investment and find new customers through exports and inports. This model for thriving in the new economy certainly imposes new burdens and obligations on companies, businesspeople, and workers: they have to travel more, reach out, and be willing to spend more time

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and roads are falling apart and because we need to make up for past neglect. But we need the investment more for the future. The new economy of online retailing and e-commerce, rising exports, and more tourism, goods, services, and people whizzing around the world, which has already done so much

Blockchain: Blueprint for a New Economy

by Melanie Swan  · 22 Jan 2014  · 271pp  · 52,814 words

the Universe A. Cryptocurrency Basics Public/Private-Key Cryptography 101 B. Ledra Capital Mega Master Blockchain List Endnotes and References Index Blockchain Blueprint for a New Economy Melanie Swan Blockchain by Melanie Swan Copyright © 2015 Melanie Swan. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Published by O’Reilly Media

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

by William Poundstone  · 4 Jan 2012  · 260pp  · 77,007 words

a question of his own: “Holy crap, what have I gotten myself into?” He had gotten himself into a not entirely atypical interview in the new economy. In many industries, offbeat interview questions are a badge of coolness. They show how “creative” the workforce is. These questions are a feature of companies

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had contact are decent, well-intentioned people. But I’ve yet to meet anyone, including myself, who knows what he (or she) is doing. The new economy has taken notice. “In an interview you can tell if a person is a pleasant conversationalist, and you can give some technical questions to rule

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, and most emulated, interview questions are short questions that spark conversations. On January 26, 2008, senator and presidential hopeful Barack Obama attempted to establish his new-economy credentials. He visited the Googleplex for a public chat with Eric Schmidt. Schmidt commented that it was hard to get a job as president—and

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu  · 4 Nov 2025  · 246pp  · 65,143 words

social media platforms, in that sense, created at least one new economic class—one group, other than the platforms themselves, that was prospering in the new economy. Yet the influencer was plainly a laboring class, as opposed to one with ownership over any productive asset. For the job of an influencer requires

Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business

by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson  · 28 Apr 2024  · 249pp  · 74,201 words

read countless articles, sat through countless conference presentations and seen countless blog posts and tweets that highlight the key role of digital identity in the new economy. Commentators may not be entirely clear on what a digital identity actually is, but they share the common suspicion that unless we have some form

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than virtual shadows of their mundane progenitors. They have no functionality beyond their heritage in industrial age bureaucracy and provide absolutely nothing new for the new economy. This is the start of the narrative that we want to build around the topic in order to facilitate constructive co-creation of the new

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or other such data structures. Verifiable credentials. These are digital statements made by issuers about a subject, and they are central to transactions in the new economy. They are explored in some detail in chapter 7, but to introduce them here one might imagine a university issuing a verifiable credential stating that

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as a reputation economy) and in the secure ownership of those objects. These services, as shown in figure 16 overleaf, provide a surface for a new economy and, therefore, for new financial services. With these services in place, the costs of financial intermediation in that economy should be substantially lower than they

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property in some form is possible without liberty, the contrary is inconceivable’ (Pipes 2000). Objects and scarcity Scarce digital objects are the property in this new economy. As has been nicely summarized by The Economist, property rights classically entail three elements: usus, fructus, abusus – that is, the right to use property, to

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the laws of supply and demand can operate under the sunshine of privacy-enhancing digital identity services, there is what we might truly call a new economy. And while, right now, these new token-powered economies seem to be founded on art and music, the fact is that the first financial services

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has always seemed to us to be the core of the architecture that we need to implement a practical identity infrastructure that works for the new economy (see Birch & McEvoy 2007). The idea of persistent pseudonyms as the anchors for relationships is the core of the business processes that will use that

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Jamie Smith, commenting on Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin’s ‘proof of personhood’ discussions (which serve to highlight the central importance of digital identity in the new economy), noted that innovation is ‘often about combining two existing ideas together in a new way’, and he gave the example of digital wallets plus AI

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