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Welcome to Madhukar's New Economy Links
"The New Economy" means different things to different people
These Online Resources on
Knowledge Economy, Complexity & Chaos, Networks & Virtuality, etc.
have helped me to figure out what it is all about...
BRINT.COM
The Encyclopedia of the New Economy
The New Economy Index
The Information Economy
Bionomics
Complex System Media
The Information Economy
An Atlas of Cyberspaces
Many of the online New Economy magazines and journals are listed on my Knowledge Links Page. Click here to reach.
Business World
e-CommerceTimes
JOHO: Journal of Hyperlinked Organisation
Threshold.com Journal
The Economist's Special Collection Archive
Wired's 52 Who's Who
Nicholas Negroponte on Being Digital
Kevin Kelley
Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Brian Arthur
James Gleick
George Gilder
This Organization is a Dis-Organization
SENCORP's Management Model
Semco
History of Internet (according to BBC)
On Distributed Comunications
It created the architecture of the new economy - networked, distributed with autonomous intelligent nodes, and a self-managing system without a central control... which marked the death of clockwork universe
...but even before Paul Baran's breakthrough were the The Prophets of Computer Age, such as,
...the rest is, of course,events & history. As a metaphor, the timeline of its growth offers some useful insights into the implicit terrain of the digital economy, and its rules of the game
On Openness and Freedom on Internet
The dawn of e-life
Stephen Talbott's Future Does not Compute
...and as the world become more networked, The Issue of Privacy will become increasingly important. How important? Well, just click here and find out!!
So You Want a Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics
New Rules for New Economy
Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events
Increasing Returns & the New World of Business
The Emerging Digital Economy Report
The Geography of the New Economy
Building Wealth
The New Barbarian Manifesto
Beyond the Information Revolution
Between Chaos and Disorder
The Systems View of Life
Emergence:
A Journal of Complexity Issues In Organizations and Management
The Generalised Theory of Life
Self-Organizing Systems
Complexity Theory for the Virtual Stock Market
The Corporation is Dead: Long Live the Constellation
When the Hub Spoke
Localised Learning and Industrial Competitiveness
The Silicon Valley Culture Project
The Brief Reign of Knowledge Worker
Knowledge Workers Need New Structures
Organization Design And The Knowledge Worker
New Ways of Working
Telecommuting, Telework and Alternative Officing
Knowledge Worker: The Hub
The Knowledge Enterprise in Information Space
Compensating the Information Technology Knowledge Worker
The Age of Social Transformation
Up the e-Organization
BBC's WebWise: Keep Updated with Emerging WebTrends
Powerline Area Network: Internet through Electric Cables
iSmell Digital Scent Technology: Scented e-mails & Aromatic Web Sites
Fax a Car, Download a Barbie Doll
Download an eBook from the site and read it on the train
Metasites & Bibliographies
Maintained by Dr Yogesh Malhotra, this knowledge portal is a must-visit site. This is a huge repository of links, articles, discussion groups on Knowledge Economy, e-business, Complex Systems, Virtual Organisation, etc.
Highly recommneded site for the uninitiated one! This three-part encyclopedia lists and defines all terms, theories and jargons which define the New Economy, brought to you be Hot Wired.
Describes structural changes which are occuring in the society - American Society, that is - due to the advent of the New Economy. Though 100% American, still an interesting site to visit.
A very rich and useful resource of links - for subjects ranging from IP policy to network economics to Technical Information - hosted by the University of California, Berkeley.
A lovely site with a large number of small insightful articles. Look out particularly for the comparisons between the machine Age Economy & Information Age Economy.
This site maintained by the School of Mathematical Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology is mind-boggling resource. Accepting that the complex system is a valid, logical framework to understand the contemporary reality, it provides links to subjects ranging from digital culture, fractals, increasing returns, financial markets....
Univ of Berkley's economist, Hal Valerian's site on "The Economics of the Internet, Information Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues"
An excellent visual resource to understand the emerging electronic territories (ISP Maps, Info Maps, WWW, etc.) and other cyberspaces.
Journals & Magazines
Why Business World ?... well, because since it went weekly, it has been carrying out issues and features which are relevant to understanding the New Economy in India. Go to the archives for some good articles.
An online newspaper, which brings out updates on the latest stories on e-com, e-biz, and what you have.
Funny, witty, insightful. Also contains Hyperlinked KM Journal. Real zany enjoyable reading.
Another of those "New Age" journals which did not go beyond the first (few) issues. But the online archives of this journal have some excellent articles on the future of strategy, dissipative systems, new paradigms for the new age, etc.
Check out some of the articles in Business, Finance & Economics and Science & Technology sections, and you will understand why I included this link here.People & Ideas
A link to most who mattered in defining and building the information economy.
Nicholas Negroponte - author of Being Digital, the founder of MIT Media Lab, founder of WiReD. This is not the complete text of the book, but you can read some of the chapters. There is also a site where you can read the complete online text of all his Wired articles
...the executive editor of WiRed, and the author of Out of Control (complete online text), highlighting the convergence of biological principles, machines and the new economic order. He was also the editor of The Whole Earth Review (now Whole Earth Magazine).
The person who broght introduced the term Paradigm Shift, which applies as much to the history of Science as it is relevant to understanding the Digital Age.
The Santa Fe Professor, winner of Schumpeter Award, former Professor of Human Biology at Stanford - writes about the Increasing Returns and Path Dependence (online papers). Of course, there are many who don't agree with him, but there is sufficient evidence that Arthur's theory is relevant for understanding the New Economy.
Author of Chaos: Making a New Science and Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything (online edition). His ideas have been influential in molding a distinct perspective about complexity and digital age - all except but one, which is about the absurdity of patent system. But perhaps, it is idea whose time has yet to come.
Described by Wired as "the thinker's thinking man", an influential writer and a regular columnist (Telecosm Articles) for Forbes. Read his recent articles here. Cases & Stories
The story of how Oticon implemented its Spaghitti structure, and turned itself around.
Case study of a company which built in the structure and dynamic characteristics of the concepts of autopoiesis and complex adaptive systems in its management systems
This is the story of the Maverick company, which is has developed the fine art of Managing without Manager (online text).
Back to IndexInternet History & Sociology
Very elementary, but good. Gives you an overview, beginnings, arrival of junk and spam, e-commerce, timeline, etc.
In a way, this report submitted in August 1964 by Paul Baran at RAND, and which led to the launch of ARPANET in 1969, marked the beginning of Internet. But more than a technical document, it was a conceptual breakthrough.
This article, entitled Preserving the Information Ecosystem takes off from Eric Raymond' classic distinction between the The Cathedral and the Bazaar[the paper]/ [the book] and argues for the latter. It is about more than just Open Source Software, but the OSS "paradigm", about the "societal method for expanding the knowledge base".
Special Newsweek report on how Internet is changing the way people live, work, shop, love...
Well, this is also a point of view... it is a free world, isn't it?
Pretty interesting online book by Reed Hunt on the impact/influence of politices and poilcies on information age
e-conomics of Knowledge/Digital Age
Kevin Kelley's classic September 95 Wired article, which lists out the 12 rules of survival and competition, which defy the known economic principles of brick-and-mortor economy.
Brian Arthur's paper, perhaps the first one which described his insights into the non-linear evolution of economic systems. Published in Economic Journal, 1989, vol. 99, 116-131.
Brian Arthur's HBR article which appeared in 1996 (July-August) issue. Describes how the new economy cannot be understood in terms of Marshallian economics (pdf file)
The 1997 US Department of Commerce Online Report on Digital Economics. Provides information on growth of Digial Economy and its implications for Global Electronic Commerce.
R D Norton's online book, which describes the "micro", "macro" and the "digital" view of the new economy.
MIT Professor Lester Thurow (see his other online articles) describes the 8 rules which govern the knowledge-economy.
Prof Ian Angell of London School of Economics on how the Information Age is changing the economic order, and creating new future scenarios.
Peter Drucker on how the significance of e-commerce and the future of knowledge worker.Chaos, Complexity & Adaptive Systems
David Berreby's article describing how complexity theory in its practical application emphasizes the ways in which a factory or a company resembles an ecosystem, responding to natural laws to find the best possible solutions to problems.
This is an online version of the 8th Chapter Fritjof Capra's book Turning Point. Of course, Capra was not talking about the New Economy, and yet, his ideas are important to understand the underlying dynamics of this new reality
This journal started and ended with just making a listing of some extremely useful online "sample" articles on complexity, self-organisation, non-linearlity, etc.
Unified Understanding of
Why such an esoteric subject link?... well, this theory by Vyacheslav L. Kalmykov (Institute of Cell Biology, Mascow), to quote from the site, is about "Complexity (Organization, Wholeness) & Self-Organizing (Evolution)... Call for Collaboration towards Strong Artificial Life and Next Generation Computation. Tough, but rewarding, reading - if one looks at the new economic order as the emergence of a self-organising system.
An excellent lucid paper on "the processes and patterns of organization and complexity in natural systems... focus on the concepts of self-organization, complexity, complex adaptive systems, criticality, the edge of chaos and evolution as they pertain to the formation of coherent pattern and structure in nature"
This New Scientist article describes the work of Brian Arthur and John Holland in creating a virtual stock market using the complexity theory.Networks & Industrial Clusters
Benjamin Gomes-Casseres' article on how constellations are the new form of strategy. Describes four broad choices which determine the competitive constellation design.
An excellent article on four kinds of clusters from hub-and-spoke variety to pure networks.
An excellent paper about the imperatives for regional industry networks in a knowledge-based economy.
An anthropological study by San Jose University of the ultimate "industrial cluster" of the new economy - The Silicon Valley
Work & Organisation
A critical article by Kit Sims Taylor. I don't agree entirely with all his points, but enjoyed reading it.
A useful aticle by Michael Maccoby focusing on the need to create new organisation design (with examples from ABB and AT&T) for the information age. Printed in: Research Technology Management, Vol. 30, No. 3 January-February 1996 pp. 56-58.
An article by Stebbins and Shani (published in The Journal of Systemic Knowledge Management, February, 1998) which uses SocioTechnical Ststems appraoch to look at new organisaitonal designs for the knowledge worker.
Fast Company archive of online articles on new kind of organisations, work and workers.
New Economy is networked, dispresed but connected, digital and virtual - and so will be work. This resource page from Gil Gordon Associates has some interesting articles on the subject
Interesting site maintained by Fourth Wave Group, if you are looking for definitions, paper abstracts.
This paper describes how Information Intensity and IT Efficiency are the two dimensions which differentiate the old and the enw enterprises, and how they can be quantified and measured
A California State University report on how it implemented a new classification and compensation structure for its IT professionals.
Peter Drucker on the implications of the new knowledge-based economic order...
This article describes the 7 dimensions of a centreless organisation, using the webwareTechnology Watch
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