You can hardly open a paper without reading some grand claim about a new economy - one freed of all the antique logic of things, weightless, nimble and unimaginably productive. Since its birth, capitalism has been a relentlessly innovating, globalizing system, and in that sense there's always a new economy. But is it newly new? In this book, the author scrutinizes the 1990s economy and questions whether it lives up to its press. Has the US boomed because of the efficacy of its model?; what's been happening with jobs and incomes, wealth and debt?; is today's worker really a free agent?; has productivity rebounded, and if so, how have computers contributed to the bounce?; how big has finance become and why?; is the state really shrinking?; and just what's wrong in principle with "globalization", anyway.
- ISBN10 1859847684
- ISBN13 9781859847688
- Publish Date 1 March 2001
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 10 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Verso Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English