Ebook {Epub PDF} After the New Economy by Doug Henwood

Now, with customary irreverence and acuity, journalist Doug Henwood dissects the New Economy, arguing that the delirious optimism of the moment was actually a manic set of variations on ancient themes-techno-utopianism, the frictionless market, the postindustrial society, and the end of the business cycle-all promoted from the highest of www.doorway.ru Interaction Count:  · THE POST-MORTEM FOR THE "NEW" ECONOMY In his book "After the New Economy" long time economic commentator, author of "Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom" and editor of the "Left Business Observer" Doug Henwood dissects the Clinton era economy in the United States, that distant decade of booming stocks, dot com IPO's and the new economic paradigm that 4/5. After the New Economy David Brancaccio talks to Doug Henwood. BRANCACCIO: Give us a sense of where we are, with our working lives. Here, now, in the 21st Century. There are challenges of the low-wage work. But what about, you know, with some new skills, some education, maybe those workers can lift themselves up into the middle class?

After the New Economy, by Doug Henwood, is a timely book in the best tradition of broad-minded, trenchant and critical commentary on economic life. In the United States, writing of this sort is uncommon, in part because of the highly professionalized nature of economics as a discipline. THE POST-MORTEM FOR THE "NEW" ECONOMY In his book "After the New Economy" long time economic commentator, author of "Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom" and editor of the "Left Business Observer" Doug Henwood dissects the Clinton era economy in the United States, that distant decade of booming stocks, dot com IPO's and the new economic paradigm that had apparently changed everything. Now, with customary irreverence and acuity, journalist Doug Henwood dissects the New Economy, arguing that the delirious optimism of the moment was actually a manic set of variations on ancient themes-techno-utopianism, the frictionless market, the postindustrial society, and the end of the business cycle-all promoted from the highest of places.

Now, with customary irreverence and acuity, journalist Doug Henwood dissects the New Economy, arguing that the delirious optimism of the moment was actually a manic set of variations on ancient themes-techno-utopianism, the frictionless market, the postindustrial society, and the end of the business cycle-all promoted from the highest of places. Review of After the New Economy by Doug Henwood (New Press ) W ith the Nasdaq up about 40% since the beginning of the year, boosterism and ballyhoo are back. The very ideas that drove the bubble -- financial deregulation, monetarism, and reduced public sector spending -- are being repacked as solutions to the problems they caused in the first place. THE POST-MORTEM FOR THE "NEW" ECONOMY In his book "After the New Economy" long time economic commentator, author of "Wall Street: How it Works and for Whom" and editor of the "Left Business Observer" Doug Henwood dissects the Clinton era economy in the United States, that distant decade of booming stocks, dot com IPO's and the new economic paradigm that had apparently changed everything.