Table of Contents

A. THE NEW ECONOMY: THREE CONCEPTIONS

1. Macro views (a): faster growth, lower inflation

    Macro views (b): competitiveness

    Macro views (c): job growth

    Macro views (d): new demographics, new politics?

2. Micro views: new economy, new firm?

3. Digital divide: the new economy as a Kondratieff Wave

B. THE REGIONAL REVOLUTION IN I.T. (A CASE-STUDY)

1. The coming Japanese conquest (ca. 1989)

2. The rise of the wild-west companies

3. The break-up of the old computer industry, 1985-1990

4. The U.S. comeback, 1989-1994

5. The Internet and new companies in the 1990s

6. The location of the top 100 I.T. firms in 1997

7. Europe's potential in the net-centered era

C. STRATEGIC CITIES 

D. METAPHORS, EVOLUTIONS, AND (REGIONAL) SCIENCE

1. Biological analogies: from Marshall to Schumpeter

2. Models and metaphors today

3. Regional Science: open, multidisciplinary, technical, and pragmatic

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