All Terrain Thinking

A Compendium of things I think are Important

Economics: It's not just whats' in your wallet

Internet and Economy Readings

On-Line Magazines 

• Business2.com: a magazine described targeted for "an audience of individuals, who we call Transformers, hungry for information on how to succeed in the Internet Age."
• Computer World
• E-commerce Times
• Information Week Online: identifies and interprets business technology trends and issues, producing more than 35 studies each year. Among its most well-known studies and reports are the annual InformationWeek 500 (the premier listing of the nation's largest and most innovative users of information technology) and the National IT Salary Survey (the nation's largest employee-based compensation and benefits study, with more than 28,000 participants in 2001). Informationweekresearch.com is also an e-commerce storefront that contains research reports from leading IT market research firms.
• InternetWeek: It focuses on "four core areas—supply chain, Web development, security, and IT services—delivering not just the news but also analysis and insight into what really matters to the enterprise."
• Internet World Online: 
• Living internet: a site "launched on January 7'th, 2000, to make high quality information about the Internet available to as many people around the world as possible."
• MIT Technology Review: a view of what's down the line
• Fast Company: "founded on a single premise: a global revolution was changing business, and business was changing the world. ... Fast Company set to chronicle how changing companies create and compete, to highlight new business practices, and to showcase the teams and individuals who are inventing the future and reinventing business."
• PC Magazine
• PC World Online
• Wired: 
• ZDNet: "At ZDNet, our mission is to be the world's premiere "full service" destination for people looking to buy, use, and learn more about technology."

On-Line Internet Stats

• e lab: is a corporate sponsored research center at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University focused on the marketing implications of commercializing the World Wide Web.  Included here are stats measuring the size of the net.
• Global Resource Centers: described as "a resource that provides links to interesting Web sites throughout the world, especially those not written in English"  Includes data on on-line usage. 
• Business Week - internet stats: stats on browsers, countries, e-mail stats, and demographics

Other Interesting Sites

• Hal Varian: a Berkeley economist who is a leading expert on the information economy 
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing, 
• Jones' Media & Information Technology Encyclopedia. 

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

Introduction

	Jean Claude Burgelman, "Traveling with Communication Technologies in Space, Time, and Everyday Life:  An Exploration of Their Impact." First Monday, March 2000.
	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
	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)
	*Peter Drucker, "Beyond the Information Revolution" The Atlantic Monthly, October, 1999
	*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
	*Thomas Hughes, "Industrial Revolutions: From Canal Systems to Computer Networks," the Gould Distinguished Lecture Series, Annual Address in 2000.
	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
	Robert E. Litan and William A. Niskanen, Going Digital! : A Guide to Policy in the Digital Age, Brookings, 1998
	Timothy Taylor, "Thinking About a New Economy," Public Interest, Spring 2001 Issue 143
	Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 1

New Economy and Why US

	Martin N. Bailey and Robert Lawrence , "Do We Have A New E-conomy?"
	Gary Becker, "It's Simple: Hike the Minimum Wage, and You Put People Out of Work," Business Week, 3/6/95
	Lynn Browne, "U.S. Economic Performance: Good Fortune, Bubble, or New Era?" New England Economic Review, M/J 1999
	"Bursting bubbles," The Economist, August 6, 199?
	"Catch up if you can," The Economist, September 23, 2001
	*Clayton Christensen, Thomas Craig, and Stuart Hart, "The Great Disruption," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
	Brad De Long, The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: Slouching Towards Utopia?
	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)
	Peter Drucker, "The Age of Social Transformation," The Atlantic Monthly, November 1994
	James Fallows, “Containing Japan,” Atlantic Monthly May 1989
	*James Fallows, "How the World Works," The Atlantic Monthly, December 1993
	James Fallows, Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System , Vintage Books, 1995
	"Introducing big government," The Economist, December 31, 1999
	Jane Katz, Business to Business on the Internet: Use of the Internet is slowly transforming the economy, Regional Review Bostoin Fed, 2000:2
	Kevin Kelly, "New Rules for the New Economy," Wired, Sept 1997
	Robert Litan, The Death of the Dot-coms Spells the Beginning of the End of the New Economy
	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
	John Markoff, "A Rebel in Japan, an Inventor is Hailed as an Innovator in U.S.,"  New York Times, September 18, 2002
	Floyd Norris, "In Bad Times, Blame Speculators,"
	Rob Norton, "Dumbed-Down Economics," Fortune 1/7/2002
	"Oil: The latest shock," The Economist September 18, 1999
	William Sahlman, "The New Economy is Stronger Than You Think," Harvard Business Review, N/D 1999
	William Sharpe, "Winners and Losers in Oil-Price Fall," New York Times, March 24, 1986
	"The good (and bad) model guide," The Economist, April 10, 1999
	*Lester Thurow's, "Building Wealth" The Atlantic Monthly, June 1999
	"Untangling e-conomics: A survey of the new economy," The Economist, 9/23/2000
	Frank Webster, Theories of the Information Society, Chapter 2, "Information and the Idea of an Information Society." 1995
	Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 3
	"Why internet shares will fall," The Economist

Reading List  Macro

	Ziaul Z. Ahmed and Patricia S. Wilder, "Multifactor productivity trends in manufacturing industries, 1987–96"  Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (91K)
	David Autor, "Wiring the Labor Market," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
	Bart van Ark and Robert H. McGuckin, " International labor productivity and per capita income," Monthly Labor Review, July 1999
	*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
	*Charlene Barshefsky, "Trade Policy for a Networked World," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
	Charlene Barshefsky, "The Networked Economy Initiative: Trade Policy Enters A New Era," Federal Communications Bar Association Washington, DC, October 23, 2000
	Abbigail J. Chiodo and Michael T. Owyang, Low Unemployment: Old Dogs or New Tricks? The Regional Economist, FRBSt.L October 2001
	*J. Bradford De Long, "Do We Have a 'New' Macroeconomy?" Innovation Policy and the Economy 2002 (forthcoming).
	J. Bradford De Long, "The New Economy in Historical Perspective," June 2001
	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).
	*Austan Goolsbee, "The Implications of Electronic Commerce for Fiscal Policy (and Vice Versa)," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
	*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)
	*Alan Greenspan, Opening Remarks, A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming,   August 30 - September 1, 2001
	William Gullickson and Michael J. Harper, "Possible measurement bias in aggregate productivity growth"  Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (210K)
	Nina Hachigian, "China's Cyber-Strategy," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
	Allen Hammond, "Digitally Empowered Development," Foreign Affairs March/April 2001
	Kevin Kliesen and David Wheelock, "The Microchip Flexes Its Muscle: Can It Compete with History's Best?," The Regional Economist, FRBStL July, 2001
	Kevin Kliessen, Paradise Found? Why the U.S. Economy Stands Apart (An Oasis of Prosperity...), The Regional Economist, FRBSt.L July 1999
	Paul Krugman, The fuzzy logic of the "New Economy, Slate 12/18/97
	Paul Krugman, "Stable prices and fast growth: just say no," The Economist 8/31/96
	McKinsey & Company, US Productivity Growth: 1995-2000, 2001
	Michael R. Pakko, "The U.S. Trade Deficit and the "New Economy" Economic Review StLFed October 1999
	"Performing Miracles"  The Economist  June 17, 2000 Page 78.
	*Avinash Persuad, "The Knowledge Gap," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2001
	"Productivity on stilts"  The Economist June 10, 2000 Page 86.
	Stephen Shepard, "The New Economy: What it Really Means," Business Week, 11/17/97
	US Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration, A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet
	Bart van Ark and Robert H. McGuckin, "International labor productivity and per capita income," Abstract | Excerpt | Full text in PDF (89K)
	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

Reading List Micro

	* J. Bradford De Long, The Two New Economies
	J. Bradford De Long, Rules, New and Old, for Tomorrow's Economy
	Charles Fishman, "Which price is right?," Fast Company March 2003
	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
	* Richard Gilbert & Michael Katz, "An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
	Thomas Hellmann and Manju Puri, "On the Fundamental Role of Venture Capital," FRBAtlanta Economic review 2002:4
	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
	Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy (1999)
	* Benjamin Klein, "The Microsoft Case: What Can a Dominant Firm Do to Defend Its Market Position," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
	William Sahlman, "The New Economy is Stronger Than You Think" (Harvard Business Review, November / December 1999)
	* Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to a Network Economy.
	Start-up.com  (film)
	Hal Varian, High-Technology Industries and Market Structure, September 17, 2001
	* Hal Varian, Market Structure in the Network Age
	Hal Varian "Miles And Miles Of Flexible Track."
	Hal Varian, High-Technology Industries and Market Structure, September 17, 2001
	* Michael Whinston, "Exclusivity and Tying in U.S. v. Microsoft: What We Know, and Don't Know," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2001
	Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapters 3, 5 and 6

Industries

	"A reluctant success," The Economist 6/9/2001
	*Francois Bar, "The Construction of Marketplace Architecture," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	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.
	Severin Borenstein and Garth Saloner, "Economics and Electronic Commerce," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2001
	*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.
	Jane Fountain with Carlos Osorio-Urzua, "Public Sector: Early Stage of a Deep Transformation," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
	Jeffrey Funk "The Mobile Internet Market: Lessons from Japan's i-Mode System," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	*Austan Goolsbee, "Higher Education: Promises of Future Delivery," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	Gary Hamel, "Edison's Curse," Fortune 3/5/2001
	*Michael Kleeman with David Bach, "E-Commerce and Network Architecture: New Perspectives," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	Robert Litan & Alice Rivlin, "The Economy and the Internet: What Lies Ahead," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
	"Lessons of a virtual timetable," The Economist 2/17/2001
	Brian Mantel, "E-money and e-commerce: Two alternative views of future innovation." Chicago Fed
	Letter March 2001
	Andrew McAfee, "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity," in The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution
	"Over the counter e-commerce," The Economist 5/26/2001
	*Task Force Comment "Standard Modules and Market Efficiency," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	Task Force Comment "The Boundary Conditions of Services," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	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.
	"The net imperative," The Economist
	Steven Weber, "The Political Economy of Open Source Software," in E-Commerce and the Terms of Competition in Industries.
	Alan E. Wiseman, The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure  Chapter 4 and 6
	"While Welch waited," The Economist 5/19/2001

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