Generations and Globalization or Understanding the Digital Economy

Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy

Author: Jennifer Col

Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care, and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the U.S., Europe, India, and China, Generations and Globalization investigates the impact of globalization in the context of families, age groups, and intergenerational relations. The contributors offer an innovative approach that focuses on the changing dynamics between generations, rather than treating changes in childhood, youth, or old age as discrete categories. They argue that new economies and global flows do not just transform contemporary family life, but are in important ways shaped and constituted by it.

African Studies Review

This collection is well worth exploring for its insights into generational shifts that occur in the midst of processes of globalization. . .

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Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

The rapid growth of electronic commerce, along with changes in information, computing, and communications, is having a profound effect on the United States economy. President Clinton recently directed the National Economic Council, in consultation with executive branch agencies, to analyze the economic implications of the Internet and electronic commerce domestically and internationally, and to consider new types of data collection and research that could be undertaken by public and private organizations.

This book contains work presented at a conference held by executive branch agencies in May 1999 at the Department of Commerce. The goals of the conference were to assess current research on the digital economy, to engage the private sector in developing the research that informs investment and policy decisions, and to promote better understanding of the growth and socioeconomic implications of information technology and electronic commerce. Aspects of the digital economy addressed include macroeconomic assessment, organizational change, small business, access, market structure and competition, and employment and the workforce.

Table of Contents:

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Introduction
Erik Brynjolfsson and Brian Kahin
The Macroeconomic Perspective
Measuring the Digital
Economy
John Haltiwanger and Ron S. Jarmin
GDP and the Digital
Economy: Keeping up with the Changes
Brent R. Moulton
Understanding Digital
Technology's Evolution and the Path of Measured Productivity Growth:
Present and Future in the Mirror of the Past
Paul A. David
Market Structure, Competition, and the Role of Small
Business
Understanding
Digital Markets: Review and Assessment
Michael D. Smith, Joseph Bailey, and Erik Brynjolfsson
Market Structure in the
Network Age
Hal R. Varian
The Evolving Structure
of Commercial Internet Markets
Shane Greenstein
Small Companies in the Digital
Economy
Sulin Ba, Andrew B. Whinston, and Han Zhang
Small Business,
Innovation, and Public Policy in the Information Technology Industry
Josh Lerner
Employment, Workforce, and Access
Technological Change,
Computerization, and the Wage Structure
Lawrence F. Katz
The Growing Digital
Divide: Implications for an Open Research Agenda
Donna L. Hoffman and Thomas P. Novak
Extending Access to the
Digital Economy to Rural and Developing Regions
Heather E. Hudson
Organizational Change
IT and Organizational
Change in Digital Economies: A Sociotechnical Approach
Rob Kling and Roberta Lamb
Organizational Change and
the Digital Economy: A Computational Organization SciencePerspective
Kathleen M. Carley
The Truth Is Not Out
There: An Enacted View of the "Digital Economy"
Wanda J. Orlikowski and C. Suzanne Iacono
Contributors
Index