Internet and Economy Readings

V History of Internet
VI Digital Divide

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History of internet & technology

bullet AlternaTimes timelines.
bullet What Is The Internet (And What Makes It Work) - December, 1999 By Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf
bullet A Brief History of the Internet
bullet A History of Computers
bullet Electronic Computers Within the Ordnance Corps which includes the Press Release
bullet Elsop History of Computing Links  /   History of Computer Companies Links
bullet Histories of Computing
bullet Histories of the Internet
bullet Hobbes’ Internet Timeline
bullet Robert Kahn,  The Role of Government in the Evolution of the Internet
bullet Virginia Montecito The History of Computing
bullet Phil Reese History of computing links
bullet Ben Segal, "A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN.
bullet Virtual Museum of Computing
bullet Universiteit Leiden, History of Internet
bullet UMN Computing History
bullet U of Southern CT, The Research Center on Computing & Society
bullet U of Southern CT, History of Computing - Computer
bullet U VA Computer Museum
bullet Webb & Associates, Chronology of Events in the History of  Personal Computers and History of Telecommunications

Digital Divide

bullet New Connections, Old Exclusions: Ethnic Minorities in Ireland’s Information Society
bullet Bridging Cultural and Digital Divides: Signifying Everyday Life, Cultural Diversity and Participation in the On-line Community Video Nation (PDF)
bullet Digital Opportunity Channel
bullet Emerging Social Gaps
bullet Digital Divide Solutions
 

Introduction

bullet John Brown and Paul Duguid, "Limits to Information" first chapter of the Harvard Business Press' The Social Life of Information, First Monday, April 2000
bullet Jean Claude Burgelman, "Traveling with Communication Technologies in Space, Time, and Everyday Life:  An Exploration of Their Impact." First Monday, March 2000.   
bullet Francis Cairncross, "The Third Transport Revolution," in The Death of Distance
bullet *Alfred Chandler Jr., "The Information Age in Historical perspective: Introduction," in Chandler and Cortada, A Nation Transformed by Information
bullet *Alfred Chandler Jr., "The Information Age: Continuities and Differences," in Chandler and Cortada, A Nation Transformed by Information
bullet Stephen Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, and John Zysman, An E-conomy?, December 1999
bullet Stephen Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong, and John Zysman, Tools for Thought: What is New and Important about the "E-conomy"  BRIE Working Paper #138  2000
bullet J. Bradford DeLong, "The New Economy in Historical Perspective," June, 2001
bullet J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers, "The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations," in Economic Policies for the Information Age (Kansas City: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, forthcoming)
bullet *Peter Drucker, "Beyond the Information Revolution" The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1999 
bullet *Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation," The Atlantic Monthly, November 1994
bullet *Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat, ch 1.
bullet *Robert Gordon, "Does the New Economy Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? April 2000 Draft of Paper for Journal of Economic Perspectives
bullet Thomas Hughes, "Industrial Revolutions: From Canal Systems to Computer Networks," the Gould Distinguished Lecture Series, Annual Address in 2000.  
bullet Kevin L. Kliesen and David C. Wheelock, "The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compare with History's Best?", St. Louis Fed's The Regional Economist July 2001
bullet Robert E. Litan and William A. Niskanen, Going Digital! : A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age, Brookings, 1998
bullet Timothy Taylor, "Thinking About a New Economy," Public Interest, Spring 2001 Issue 143  
bullet Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 1

New Economy and Why US?

bullet *Martin N. Bailey and Robert Lawrence , "Do We Have A New E-conomy?"  
bullet Gary Becker, "It's Simple: Hike the Minimum Wage, and You Put People Out of Work," Business Week, 3/6/95
bullet Lynn Browne, "U.S. Economic Performance: Good Fortune, Bubble, or New Era?" New England Economic Review, M/J 1999
bullet "Bursting bubbles," The Economist, August 6, 199?
bullet Francis Cairncross, "The Third Transport Revolution," in The Death of Distance
bullet "Catch up if you can," The Economist, September 23, 2001
bullet *Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great Disruption," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
bullet *Council of Economic Advisors' 2001 Economic Report of the President. Chapter 1 
bullet Brad De Long, The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: Slouching Towards Utopia?  
bullet J. Bradford De Long and Lawrence H. Summers, "The New Economy: Background, Questions, Speculations," in Economic Policies for the Information Age (Kansas City: Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, forthcoming)
bullet James Fallows, “Containing Japan,” Atlantic Monthly May 1989
bullet *James Fallows, "How the World Works," The Atlantic Monthly, December 1993
bullet James Fallows, Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System, Vintage Books, 1995
bullet "Introducing big government," The Economist, December 31, 1999
bullet Jane Katz, Business to Business on the Internet: Use of the Internet is slowly transforming the economy, Regional Review Bostoin Fed, 2000:2 
bullet Bruce Kogut, "Introduction: The Internet has Borders," in The Global Internet Economy, Bruce Kogut, (ed)
bullet Robert Litan, The Death of the Dot-coms Spells the Beginning of the End of the New Economy
bullet Robert E. Litan and Alice M. Rivlin, "The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution, Internet Policy Institute, Brookings Institution Press
bullet John Markoff, "A Rebel in Japan, an Inventor is Hailed as an Innovator in U.S.,"  New York Times, September 18, 2002
bullet Floyd Norris, "In Bad Times, Blame Speculators," 
bullet Rob Norton, "Dumbed-Down Economics," Fortune 1/7/2002
bullet *OECD,  The New Economy: Beyond the Hype, 2001
bullet "Oil: The latest shock," The Economist September 18, 1999
bullet William Sahlman, "The New Economy is Stronger Than You Think," Harvard Business Review, N/D 1999
bullet William Sharpe, "Winners and Losers in Oil-Price Fall," New York Times, March 24, 1986
bullet "The good (and bad) model guide," The Economist, April 10, 1999
bullet "Untangling e-conomics: A survey of the new economy," The Economist, 9/23/2000
bullet David Warsh, "In Which the Internet Threatens Holland," The Boston Globe, April 5, 1998
bullet Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society, Chapter 2, "Information and the Idea of an Information Society." 1995
bullet Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 3
bullet "Why internet shares will fall," The Economist

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Micro

bullet Jeff Camino, Pricing Strategies
bullet * J. Bradford De Long, The Two New Economies
bullet J. Bradford De Long, Rules, New and Old, for Tomorrow's Economy 
bullet J. Bradford De Long & A Michael Froomkin, Speculative Microeconomics for Tomorrow's Economy, First Monday Feb 2000
bullet Council of Economic Advisors, 2001 Economic Report of the President, Chapter 3  
bullet Gene Ellison and Sara Fisher Ellison, "Lessons About Markets from the Internet," Journal of Economic Perspective Spring 2005
bullet Charles Fishman, "Which price is right?," Fast Company March 2003
bullet Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
bullet Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, "An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
bullet Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, An Economist's Guide to Microsoft
bullet Goolsbee & Judy Chevalier"Price Competition Online: Amazon Versus Barnes And Noble,"  forthcoming, Quantitative Marketing and Economics. 2002
bullet Goolsbee & Peter Klenow, Evidence on Learning and Network Externalities in the Diffusion of Home Computers,"  , Journal of Law and Economics, October 2002, Vol XLV (2) (PT. 1), 317-344.
bullet Goolsbee  & Jeffrey Brown, "Does the Internet Make Markets More Competitive? Evidence from the Life Insurance Industry,"  Journal of Political Economy, June 2002, 110(3), pp. 481-507.
bullet Goolsbee   "Competition in the Computer Industry: Online Versus Retail," Journal of Industrial Economics, 49(4), December 2001, pp. 487-499
bullet Paul A. Gompers, "Corporations and the Financing of Innovation: The Corporate Venturing Experience" FRB Atlanta Economic Review 2002:4
bullet Thomas Hellmann and Manju Puri, "On the Fundamental Role of Venture Capital," FRB Atlanta Economic Review 2002:4
bullet Faith Keenan, "The Price Is Really Right: With a Web-savvy system, companies can figure out just what the market will bear." Business Week,  March 31, 2003 
bullet Benjamin Klein, "The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its Market Position," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
bullet Josh Lerner, "Boom and Bust in the Venture Capital Industry and the Impact on Innovation," FRB Atlanta Economic Review 2002:4
bullet Pei-yu Chen, Pricing Strategies for Digital Information Goods and Online Service on the Internet
bullet Richard Posner, "Intellectual Property: The law and Economics Approach," Journal of Economic Perspective Spring 2005
bullet William Sahlman, "The New Economy is Stronger Than You Think" (Harvard Business Review, November / December 1999)
bullet Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to a Network Economy
bullet Hal Varian, "Copying and Copyright,"  Journal of Economic Perspective Spring 2005
bullet * Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian,  Locked In, Not Locked Out, "Versioning:  The smart way to sell information" 
bullet Start-up.com  (film)
bullet Hal Varian, High-Technology Industries and Market Structure, September 17, 2001
bullet * Hal Varian, Market Structure in the Network Age  
bullet Hal Varian "Miles And Miles Of Flexible Track."   
bullet * Hal Varian, "5 Habits of Highly Effective Revolutions"
bullet Michael Whinston, "Exclusivity and Tying in U.S. v. Microsoft: What We Know, and Don't Know," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
bullet Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapters 3, 5 and 6
bullet GENE D'AVOLIO, EFI GILDOR, and ANDREI SHLEIFER, "Technology, Information Production, and Market Efficiency," in Economic Policy for the Information Economy A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Jackson Hole, Wyoming August 30 - September 1, 2001

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Macro

bullet Ziaul Z. Ahmed and Patricia S. Wilder, "Multifactor productivity trends in manufacturing industries, 1987–96" 
 Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (91K)
bullet Ralph Angell, "Fed: on the right course" The Wall Street Journal, Dec 16, 1997
bullet David Autor, "Wiring the Labor Market," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
bullet Bart van Ark and Robert H. McGuckin, " International labor productivity and per capita income," Monthly Labor Review, July 1999
bullet *Martin Neil Baily, Macroeconomic Implications of the New Economy, A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
bullet *Charlene Barshefsky, "Trade Policy for a Networked World," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
bullet Charlene Barshefsky, "The Networked Economy Initiative: Trade Policy Enters A New Era," Federal Communications Bar Association Washington, DC, October 23, 2000
bullet Charlene Barshefsky, FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WIRED WORLD: TRADE POLICY IN THE CLINTON ERA, October 10, 2000
bullet Abbigail J. Chiodo and Michael T. Owyang, Low Unemployment: Old Dogs or New Tricks? The Regional Economist, FRBSt.L October 2001
bullet Casey Cornwell and Bharat Trehan, Information Technology and Productivity 2000-34; November 10, 2000; 
bullet *Council of Economic Advisors, 2001 Economic Report of the President  (Ch. 2)  
bullet *J. Bradford De Long, "Do We Have a 'New' Macroeconomy?" Innovation Policy and the Economy 2002 (forthcoming).
bullet J. Bradford De Long, "The New Economy in Historical Perspective," June 2001 
bullet J. Bradford De Long, "The U.S. Economy 'Back on Top'?: Economic Growth and the Rhetoric of National Power," in Robert Brenner, ed., The U.S. at the Turn of the Millennium (forthcoming).
bullet Robert Eisner, "Our Natural Limit: The Governing Myth of Economic Policy," The American Prospect March 21, 1995
bullet *Austan Goolsbee, "The Implications of Electronic Commerce for Fiscal Policy (and Vice Versa)," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
bullet *Robert Gordon, "Does the New Economy Measure up to the Great Inventions of the Past? ( April 2000 Draft of Paper for Journal of Economic Perspectives)
bullet *Alan Greenspan, Opening Remarks, A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
bullet William Gullickson and Michael J. Harper, "Possible measurement bias in aggregate productivity growth" Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (210K)
bullet Nina Hachigian, "China's Cyber-Strategy," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
bullet Allen Hammond, "Digitally Empowered Development," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
bullet Charles Jones, "The Future of the New Economy," FRBSF May 11, 2001
bullet John Judd, "NAIRU: Is it Useful for Monetary Policy," FRBSF Nov. 21, 1997
bullet Kevin Kliesen and David Wheelock, "The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compete with History's Best?," The Regional Economist, FRBStL July, 2001
bullet Kevin Kliessen, Paradise Found? Why the U.S. Economy Stands Apart (An Oasis of Prosperity...), The Regional Economist, FRBSt.L July 1999
bullet Paul Krugman, The fuzzy logic of the "New Economy, Slate 12/18/97
bullet Paul Krugman, "Stable prices and fast growth: just say no," The Economist 8/31/96
bullet J. Steven Landefeld and Barbara M. Fraumen, "Measuring the New Economy," Presented at the May 5, 2000 meeting of the BEA Advisory Committee. (Revised, March 2001)
bullet Steven Leavitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics, William Morrow 2005
bullet Mankiw "Alan Greenspan's tradeoff" Fortune, Dec 8, 1997 
bullet McKinsey & Company, US Productivity Growth: 1995-2000, 2001
bullet Michael R. Pakko, "The U.S. Trade Deficit and the "New Economy" Economic Review StLFed October 1999
bullet "Performing Miracles"  The Economist  June 17, 2000 Page 78.
bullet *Avinash Persuad, "The Knowledge Gap," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
bullet "Productivity on stilts"  The Economist June 10, 2000 Page 86.
bullet Glenn D. Rudebusch, "How Fast Can the New Economy Grow?" FRBSF, February 25, 2000
bullet Rosett, "Greenspan's dilemma" The Wall Street Journal, Dec 15, 1997
bullet Stephen Shepard, "The New Economy: What it Really Means," Business Week, 11/17/97
bullet Kevin J. Stiroh, What Drives Productivity Growth?, Economic Policy Review, FRBNY, March 2001
bullet Bharat Trehan, Unemployment and Productivity, FRBSF Economic Letter, 10/12/2001 
bullet Lester Thurow, "The Crusade That's Killing Prosperity," The American Prospect March 1-April 1, 1996
bullet US Commerce Department's Americans in the Information Age: Falling Through the Net
bullet US Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet
bullet Bart van Ark and Robert H. McGuckin, "International labor productivity and per capita income," Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (89K)
bullet Michael Woodward, Monetary Policy in the Information Economy, A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001

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Industries and a look forward

bullet "A reluctant success," The Economist 6/9/2001
bullet *Francois Bar, "The Construction of Marketplace Architecture," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet Francois Bar, Stephen Cohen, Peter Cowhey, J. Bradford De Long, Michael Kleeman, and John Zysman, "The Next Generation Internet: Promoting Innovation and User- Experimentation," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet Severin Borenstein and Garth Saloner, "Economics and Electronic Commerce," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
bullet Francis Cairncross, "The Trendspotter's Guide to New Communications," in The Death of Distance
bullet Francis Cairncross, "Reinventing Government, Redefining the Nation State," in The Death of Distance
bullet *Stephen Cohen, J. Bradford De Long, Steven Weber, and John Zysman, "Tools: The Drivers of E-Commerce," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet  "Commentary", MARTIN FELDSTEIN, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research  in A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001 
bullet "Commentary," CHRISTIAN NOYER, Vice President, European Central Bank, in A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
bullet Commentary, "JANET L. YELLEN, A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
bullet Charles Fine & Daniel Raff, "Automotive Industry: Internet-Driven Innovation and Economic Performance," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
bullet Jane Fountain with Carlos Osorio-Urzua, "Public Sector: Early Stage of a Deep Transformation," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
bullet Jeffrey Funk "The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from Japan's i-Mode System," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet *Austan Goolsbee, "Higher Education: Promises of Future Delivery," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
bullet Gary Hamel, "Edison's Curse," Fortune 3/5/2001
bullet Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy (1999) 
bullet Martin Kenney, "The growth and development of the Internet in the United States," in The Global Internet Economy, Bruce Kogut (ed)
bullet Martin Kenney and James Curry, "The Internet and the Personal Computer Value Chain," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the terms of Competition in Industries
bullet *Michael Kleeman with David Bach, "E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet Robert Litan & Alice Rivlin, "The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead?," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
bullet "Lessons of a virtual timetable," The Economist 2/17/2001
bullet Brian Mantel, "E-money and e-commerce: Two alternative views of future innovation." Chicago Fed
bullet  Letter March 2001
bullet Andrew McAfee, "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
bullet "Over the counter e-commerce," The Economist 5/26/2001
bullet Jonatahn Potter, "Con tronting the Digital era: Thoughts on the Music Industry," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the terms of Competition in Industries
bullet Don Tapscott, "Twelve Themes of the New Economy," in The Digital Economy, McGraw Hill 1997
bullet *Task Force Comment "Standard Modules and Market Efficiency," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet Task Force Comment "The Boundary Conditions of Services," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet Task Force Comment "What Will the Next Generation of Tools, Networks, and Marketplaces Look Like?," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet "The net imperative," The Economist  
bullet *Lester Thurow's, "Building Wealth" The Atlantic Monthly, June 1999
bullet Steven Weber, "The Political Economy of Open Source Software," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
bullet Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 4 and 6
bullet "While Welch waited," The Economist 5/19/2001
bullet Setsuya Sato et al, "E-Finance Developments and Policy Implications," in BRIE-IGCC E-conomy Project, Tracking a Transformation: E-commerce and the terms of Competition in Industries
bullet Kevin Kelly, "New Rules for the New Economy," Wired, Sept 1997
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