The Internet Depression The Boom, The Bust And Beyond

by Mandel, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9780465043590
• ISBN10: 0465043593
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-18
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

The Coming Internet Depression is the one book that offers a rational method for making the best of tech-driven economic downturns. Michael Mandel, the economist most renowned for predicting the New Economy of the 1990s, was one of the first to predict the next major economic event-a sharp, severe downturn that devastated the tech sector, sent the stock market plummeting, and wreaked havoc across the entire economy. Mandel describes how the very strengths that drive the New Economy -from the dominance of venture capital to the rapid pace of innovation to the flexibility of the work force-are coming back to haunt us. In this new paperback edition he addresses the next stage of the Internet Depression in a new preface.

Author Biography

Michael J. Mandel is the economics editor at BusinessWeek. Named one of the top 100 business journalists of the twentieth century, he holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	ix
Preface	xix
Acknowledgments	xxi
Peril and Promise	1	(13)
What's New about the New Economy	14	(25)
The Last Depression	39	(13)
The Tech Cycle	52	(17)
The Long, Slow Slide	69	(15)
The Next Depression	84	(19)
Riding Out the Storm	103	(17)
Will the Internet Depression Go Global?	120	(13)
Escape from the Internet Depression	133	(15)
Regaining Our Faith in the Future	148	(5)
Notes	153	(8)
Index	161