The new economy /
Alcaly, Roger.
The new economy / Roger Alcaly. - New York, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. - xxii, 324 páginas : ilustraciones, gráficas a blanco y negro ; 21 cm.
Preface to the paperback edition, xi -- Introduction, 3 -- From the new industrial State to the new economy, 6 -- Schumpeter's Vision, 14 -- 1. Is there a new economy?, 17 What makes an economy new?, 20 -- Productivity growth over the last two centuries, 25 -- The productivity paradox, 35 -- What caused the revival of productivity growth?, 38 -- Will it last?, 43 -- 2. Why did it take so long?, 52 -- Building a critical mass, 55 -- A brief history of the transistor, 60 -- Learning to use new technologies: electric power, 67 -- Measuring economic change, 74 -- 3· The changing of the guard, 81 -- Galbraith's new industrial State, 83 -- The dangers of aggressive extrapolation, 86 -- The fall of the new industrial State, 91 -- Addendum: Galbraith, Schumpeter, and the convergence hypothesis, 115 -- 4. New ways of working, 120 -- From ford to dell: mass production to mass customization, 122 -- New technology and new business practices, 132 -- Lean production: a new manufacturing model for the new economy, 138 -- Technology, worker skills, and new work practices, 146 -- Addendum: The mixed record of ESOPs, 154 -- 5· The Stock market and the new economy, 161 -- First principles, 166 -- Caveats and exceptions, 170 -- Bubbles, misleading accounting, and shady dealing, 177 -- Reversion to the mean, 191 -- New investors and new companies, 196 -- 6. Junk bonds and takeovers, 204 -- Mergers and acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990S, 209 -- The revival of the junk-bond market, 212 -- Developing a network of investors, 215 -- The hugely profitable deals of the early and mid-1980s, 219 -- Mania, prosecutions, and collapse, 223 -- Was it worth it?, 229 -- 7· Better monetary policy, 235 -- The federal reserve system, 238 -- The Volcker years, 246 -- The Greenspan era, 251 -- Conclusion: Looking forward, 263 -- Notes, 277 -- Acknowledgments, 313 -- Index, 315.
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Estados Unidos.
HC 110 .I55 / .A43 2003