The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
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A call to develop a new politics for the age of the digital economy -- when currency and goods literally have no weight. The Weightless World is the first book to map an economic world that has been turned upside down by digital technology and global business. How will our careers, businesses, and governments change in a world where bytes are the only currency and where the goods that shape our lives--global financial transactions, computer code, and cyberspace commerce--literally have no weight? Addressing such problems as economic inequity and unemployment, Diane Coyle calls on individuals and governments to develop a new politics of weightlessness so that the economic benefits can be shared fairly. She proposes the creation of a radical center as the way to a new era of human creativity and economic prosperity.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0262032597
ISBN13:9780262032599
Release Date:November 1998
Publisher:MIT Press
Length:274 Pages
Weight:1.34 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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Business Business & Investing E-Commerce Econometrics Economic History Economic Policy Economic Policy & Development Economics Entrepreneurship Industries & Professions Information Management Management Management & Leadership Management Science Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Popular Economics Science & Math Small Business & Entrepreneurship Social Science Social Sciences Technology TheoryCustomer Reviews
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A Good Read!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan originated using "weightless" to describe computer-powered information technology. Diane Coyle employs his metaphor to explain that the European world is afflicted with unemployment and insecurity because of the evolution from industrial output to weightlessness. Her view of the new technology's international economic impact is distinctly European/British. She paints her strategy for managing the digital economy with a colorful but broad brush: better education, international ethical standards, governmental flexibility, liberalism. Her writing features quirky phrases, challenging sentence structure, and a few British spellings. Coyle includes surprising anecdotes and sparkling quotes from diverse sources - a valuable lexicon for further reading. We [...] recommend this book to those with an eclectic, liberal, literate, European view of the difference between the U.S. economic experience and that of the rest of the world. Such a reader will be delighted here.
An interesting read about the future
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
An interesting read about the future, provocative optimism, and predictive anticipation for the future. Academic researchers will, however, find a missing link---that to theory. But, for the most part, well worth a quick read. The author shows the trees in a world where too many of us care about the trees.
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