Capitalism, technology, and the digital discourse -- Contemporary technology discourse -- Network market -- Network work -- Network production -- Network human -- Network cosmology and the exhaustion of critique -- Networks as the techno-political culture of post-fordism

section 1. Information technology in a liberalised economy -- section 2. Government 1.0 and information technology -- section 3. Government 2.0 and information technology -- section 4. Contested information technology

This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation). By increasing access to comparative data, influencing...