The items listed here cover various aspect of the new economy and the economics of information technology.

Essays

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1998, "The Brief Reign of the Knowledge Worker" -- on the prospect of technological unemployment of knowledge workers.

First Monday, September 1998, "Higher Education: From Craft-Production to Capitalist Enterprise?" -- on the effect of information technology on higher education.

Seattle Times, February 7, 2000, "The conundrum of the New Economy" -- on Microsoft's operating system monopoly and potential antitrust remedies.

Conference Papers

"The Brief Reign of the Knowledge Worker: Information Technology and Technological Unemployment." Presented at The International Conference on the Social Impact of Information Technology, St. Louis, Missouri, October 12-14, 1998.

Excerpts from the conference paper were published in Basic Income: Economic Security for All Canadians, by Sally Lerner, C.M.A. Clark, and W.R. Needham (Between the Lines, Toronto, 1999).

Academic Articles

Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics, July, 1998, "A Commentary on 'Is Microsoft a Monopolist?'" -- on the misapplication of standard economics to information technology industries.

Published Letters:

Wired on the limitations of computer searching, August 1996

The New York Times, on technology and jobs, March 26, 1998

Business Week, on the Microsoft antitrust case, May 11, 1998

Wired, on economist Paul Krugman's assessment of the new economy, August 1998

The New York Times, on knowledge workers, productivity, and techno-pessimism, April 18, 1999

The Wall Street Journal, on the "mixed economy," Keynes, and the distribution of income, May 11, 1999

The New York Times, on the productivity of knowledge workers, February 20, 2000