List of Figures | p. viii |
List of Graphs and Boxes | p. ix |
List of Tables | p. x |
Preface to the English edition | p. xi |
Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
A shared vision | p. 1 |
Beyond the myths | p. 2 |
A kaleidoscopic approach | p. 3 |
A social construct and an analytical challenge | p. 5 |
Introduction | p. 5 |
The American economy in the 1990s was no longer the same as that in the 1960s | p. 5 |
Combining micro- and macroeconomics, history and geography | p. 8 |
The difficulty of analysing structural changes in real time | p. 9 |
Conclusion | p. 13 |
Microeconomic instability and an uncertain organizational model | p. 14 |
Introduction | p. 14 |
Digitalized information and redundant networks | p. 14 |
The three figures of the 'new economy' | p. 17 |
The search for an organizational model for the 'new economy' | p. 19 |
Conclusion | p. 25 |
A growth regime driven by information and communications technology? | p. 26 |
Introduction | p. 26 |
The new and the old economies: a conjunction of two virtuous circles? | p. 26 |
The Solow paradox has not been entirely resolved yet | p. 28 |
Faster potential growth: problems with forecasting | p. 33 |
The 'new economy' has had different effects on different sectors | p. 36 |
Conclusion | p. 42 |
Genealogy of the 'new economy': the institutional change at the heart of the US trajectory | p. 44 |
Introduction | p. 44 |
1973-2000: the long search for successors to the Fordist growth regime | p. 44 |
An early deregulation of the product market | p. 51 |
Increasingly competitive labour markets | p. 53 |
ICT as a way of overcoming management problems in large companies | p. 55 |
The peace dividend | p. 57 |
A new architecture for economic policy | p. 58 |
Multiform financial innovations | p. 60 |
Internationalization underpinned internal US dynamics | p. 62 |
Should other countries adopt the institutional architecture of the USA? | p. 63 |
Conclusion | p. 64 |
The geography of the 'new economy': the diversity of institutional architectures | p. 65 |
Introduction | p. 65 |
ICT at the heart of the technological change process | p. 65 |
Pre-conditions for virtuous growth: two configurations | p. 68 |
Was the US configuration exemplary or just singular? | p. 70 |
Three institutional configurations | p. 71 |
Is it necessary to produce ICT in order to know how to use them? | p. 73 |
Conclusion | p. 75 |
2000-2002: reassessing the potential of ICT-driven growth | p. 77 |
Introduction | p. 77 |
The Internet bubble: from boom to burst | p. 77 |
Traders and economists forget the lessons of history at their own peril | p. 86 |
Consecutive technological paradigms do not resemble one another | p. 90 |
Conclusion | p. 99 |
The long-term historical outlook after the Internet bubble | p. 101 |
Introduction | p. 101 |
Overestimating ICT's role | p. 101 |
The end of three major myths | p. 105 |
Inequalities within and between countries: down with technological determinism | p. 107 |
An uncertain mode of regulation | p. 109 |
The opposition between the old and the new economy is obsolete | p. 115 |
Conclusion | p. 118 |
The emergence of an anthropogenetic model | p. 120 |
Introduction | p. 120 |
ICT as the vector of real-time management? | p. 120 |
Moving towards a network economy? | p. 124 |
The transition towards a knowledge economy? | p. 128 |
In the long run: an anthropogenetic model | p. 136 |
Conclusion | p. 143 |
Conclusion | p. 145 |
The future lasts for a long time | p. 145 |
Behind the success of the 'new economy': a crisis already in the making | p. 145 |
Multiform institutional changes rather than technological determinism | p. 147 |
The geography of the 'new economy' actually includes the Nordic countries | p. 147 |
ICT is already a mature industry | p. 148 |
The power of Wall Street instead of Silicon Valley | p. 149 |
Altered competition but no return to mythical competitive markets | p. 150 |
Between speculation and utopia: the anthropogenetic model | p. 151 |
Bibliography | p. 153 |
Index | p. 168 |
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