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Author Wriston, Walter B.

Title Bits, bytes, and balance sheets : the new economic rules of engagement in a wireless world / by Walter B. Wriston
Published Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 160 pages)
Series Hoover Institution Press publication ; 557
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 557.
Contents Unintended Consequences -- The Creation of Wealth -- Bits, Bytes, Power, and Diplomacy -- New Rules: Different in Kind, Not Degree -- The Whiskey Ain't Working Anymore -- What Gets Measured, Gets Done -- The Great Disconnect: Balance Sheets Versus Market Value -- Politically Correct Versus Accurate Earnings -- Global Accounting for a Global Market -- Other People's Money
Summary "The Internet has changed everything. It is altering the way institutions, both public and private, are managed, and the way individuals react to one another, their workplace, and their government. From an economic and business perspective, the race to win is between those who "get it" and those who don't. In Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets, Walter Wriston explores the consequences of the changes produced by the new economy of the Internet, defining the new rules and examining some of the promising initiatives under way to create a system of measuring and valuing assets that reflects our new economic realities"--Website introduction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index
Notes English
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Subject Internet -- Economic aspects
Information technology.
Electronic commerce.
Electronic data processing.
information technology.
COMPUTERS -- Information Technology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- E-Commerce -- General (see also COMPUTERS -- Electronic Commerce)
Electronic data processing
Electronic commerce
Information technology
Internet -- Economic aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817948634
0817948635
9780817948689
0817948686