The economic payoff from the internet revolution
By: Robert E. Litan and Alice M. Rivlin, editors.
Contributors: Litan, Robert E., 1950-; Rivlin, Alice M.; Brookings Task Force on the Internet.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Technological innovations -- Economic aspects; Business enterprises -- Computer network resources; Internet; Evolutionary economics
Notes: "Internet Policy Institute."

The Brookings Task Force on the Internet.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The economy and the internet : what lies ahead? / Robert E. Litan and Alice M. Rivlin; title: Manufacturing : lowering boundaries, improving productivity / Andrew McAfee; title: Automotive industry : internet-driven innovation and economic performance / Charles H. Fine and Daniel M. G. Raff; title: Financial services : transparency, differential pricing, and disintermediation / Eric K. Clemons and Lorin M. Hitt; title: Trucking industry : challenges to keep pace / Anuradha Nagarajan, Enrique Canessa, Will Mitchell, C. C. White III; title: Retail services : continuing the internet success / Joseph P. Bailey; title: Health care : competition and productivity / Patricia M. Danzon and Michael Furukawa; title: Public sector : early stage of a deep transformation / Jane E. Fountain, with Carlos A. Osorio-Urzua; title: Higher education : promises for future delivery / Austan Goolsbee.