Description
What’s left from the new economy? This book takes an unfashionable perspective and shows that despite all the mistaken ideas and exaggerations, the technological changes of the 1990s still have important effects today. Economic history shows that technological revolutions tend to generate deep economic and social crises before a temporary state of equilibrium is reached.
The established modes of accumulations and regimes of regulation of national capitalisms and international capitalism have been undermined by the collapse of the high tech asset bubble. Financial markets are still in disarray. What can be observed, however, is that national economies are better positioned to tackle the crisis than others. Why is this?
This and other important questions are tackled by an international team of contributors including Daniele Archibugi, Harald Hagemann, Bruno Amable, Martin Heidenreich and David Gibbs. This volume should be of great interest to all those working at the intersection of international politics and economics.
Table of Contents
Part One: Macro Economics of Innovation 1. Spaces of Innovation, Introductory Remarks on the Comparative Politocal Economy of the New Economy - Kurt Hubner 2. The New Economy in a Growth Crisis - Georg Erber and Harald Hagemann 3. Innovations, Economic Growth and Productivity in the New Economy - Martin Zagler Part Two: Institutional Matrixes 4. Is there an Institutional Base of the New Economy? - Bruno Amable 5. Europe in the Innovation Race - Daniele Archibugi and Alberto Coco 6. Innovation and Social Security. An International Comparison - Martin Heidenreich 7. Transnationalisation of European Governance in the Information Age: The Role of Policy Networks - David Gibbs Part Three: Spaces of Innovation 8. Urban Governance, Interspatial Comptition and the Political Geographies of the New Economy: Reflections on the Western European Case - Neil Brenner^l 9. Do Regional Systems of Innovation Matter? - Michael Fritsch 10. Internet-based Electronic Business: A Sociology of Discontinuities and Failures of New Companies in the Fields of Entertainment and Technology in California - Gerhard Krauss 11. The New Economy Assets of the Berlin Metropolitan Region: Development Chances and Threats - Stefan Kratke
