Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy

by Greg Downey and Melissa S. Fisher

Book Overview

With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the "New Economy" of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337398
• ISBN13: 9780822337393
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"