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Net Loss : Internet Prophets, Private Profits, And The Costs To Community

Attribution
Nathan Newman
Publication Details
Book, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002
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(LOWER LEVEL) HD9696.8.U62 N48 2002 AVAILABLE
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Description
“Nathan Newman has written a fascinating history of the Silicon Valley that chronicles the federal government?s leading role in creating, and then privatizing, the Internet. Net Loss not only dispels the myth that the Internet emerged full-blown as a result of entrepreneurial risk in a competitive marketplace, but also explains in depth how forces of globalization have undermined regional economies in California while reshaping social and political life in local communities. He then examines the complex dynamic of the process whereby regional economies have been changing as business alliances built around industries like the Internet replace the broader public investments that fueled regional growth in the past. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Newman, Nathan, 1966-
Subject
Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. How the Federal Government Created the Internet, and How the Internet Is Threatened by the Government’s Withdrawal
- 3. Federal Spending and the Regionalization of Technology Development
- 4. Business Cooperation and the Business Politics of Regions in the Information Age
- 5. Banks, Electricity, and Phones: Technology, Regional Decline, and the Marketization of Fixed Capital
- 6. Local Government Up for Bid: Internet Taxes, Economic Development, and Public Information
- 7. Conclusion: The Death of Community Economics, or Think Locally, Act Globally
ISBN
- 0271022043
- 0271022051
- 9780271022048
- 9780271022055
LCCN
- 2001053633
Open Library ID
- /b/OL9603573M
- /b/OL9615310M