Ruling The Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier - Tapa blanda

Spar, Debora L.

 
9780156027021: Ruling The Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier
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ISBN 10: 015602702X ISBN 13: 9780156027021
Editorial: Harper Business, 2003

Sinopsis

Beginning with the development of the compass, Ruling the Waves examines a series of technological revolutions that promised, in their time, to transform the world's politics and business. With Debora Spar's gifted storytelling, each chapter reads like an adventure tale as she recounts the histories of the printing press and maps; of the telegraph, radio, and satellite television; of software, encryption, and the advent of digital music. At each of these junctures Spar suggests that invention led to both a wave of commerce and of chaos.
Entrepreneurs such as Samuel Morse and Rupert Murdoch carved new markets from the emerging technology and proclaimed that the old rules no longer applied. And for a while, they were right. But eventually--and inevitably--even cowboys need rules: rules of property, rules of coordination, rules of competition. The erstwhile pioneers thus turn to government, lobbying for order and setting the stage for the next wave of discovery.
A fascinating history of business, Ruling the Waves is also an original, thought-provoking analysis of the parallels between past innovations and inventions and our own tumultuous times.

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Debora L. Spar is a professor at the Harvard Business School. A political scientist by training, she specializes in the politics of international business and speaks frequently before corporate and policy-making groups. Professor Spar is the author of three previous books and lives in Boston with her architect husband and two sons.

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Editorial
Harper Business
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
015602702X
ISBN 13 
9780156027021
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
416
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ISBN 10:  0151005095 ISBN 13:  9780151005093
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