FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- I INTRODUCTION -- Software and the New Economy -- II PROCEEDINGS -- Introduction--Dale W. Jorgenson -- The Economics of Software--William J. Raduchel -- Panel I - The Role of Software - What Does Software Do? -- Panel II - How Do We Make Software and Why Is...

FrontMatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Acronyms -- Overview of the Findings and Recommendations -- I INTRODUCTION -- The Emergence of the New Economy--Dale W. Jorgenson -- II FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- Findings and Recommendations -- III SUMMARY OF THE NRC CONFERENCES ON THE NEW...

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Executive Summary -- Introduction 1 -- Introduction 2 -- Welcome to the New Economy -- Defining and Measuring the New Economy -- Drivers of the New Economy -- Communications and Software -- Applications and Policy Issues -- Roundtable Discussion -- Appendix...

In this book, Robert Boyer follows the origins, course and collapse of the "new economy" and proposes a new interpretation of US dynamism during the 1990s. He argues that the diffusion of information and communication technologies is only part of a story that also requires understanding of the...