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DOT.CONCASSIDY J.wydawnictwo: PENGUIN , rok wydania 2002, wydanie Icena netto: Dot.con The Greatest Story Ever Sold John Cassidy, a wonderfully accomplished writer, something rare in this field of comment, has written a deeply interesting work on the world of finance. He has covered a major recent development, that of computer technology and the Internet, and extends his subject to some centuries of optimism, excess and insanity. We can take comfort from the certainty that the most recent aberration will be better understood than some in the past and our debt will be to John Cassidy's dot.con. It is the Very best We Will have' JOHN KENNETH galbraith, author of The Great Crash 1929 Today it seems extraordinary that just a couple of years ago many intelligent people believed that the marriage of computers and communications networks would bring eternal peace and prosperity. Now the Internet bubble has burst. John Cassidy's dot.con sets out to understand why. The speculative boom of the 1990s wasn't just about young entrepreneurs trying to get rich quick. Everyone was along for the ride from politicians to pundits, from investment bankers to the ordinary punter enticed by the prospect of instant wealth. The Internet boom and bust reflected something about almost all of us, and what we thought about ourselves, as the twenty-first century dawned. During this heady period John Cassidy gained a reputation for consistently intelligent and sceptical reporting on the Internet economy. His unwavering sense of the dubiousness of the boom, and his pursuit in interview of all the key individuals involved, from Alan Greenspan down, has proved amazingly prescient, dot.con brings this tumultuous episode vividly to life and shows how it was that the most harebrained and impossibly imprudent schemes could once have seemed so attractive. John Cassidy has written extensively on the economy for the Sunday Times and recently as a staff writer for the New Yorker. 372 pages
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