Contents	6
	Contributors	7
	Preface	10
	‘That’s just so 1997’	12
	1 Geographies of the New Economy: an introduction	12
	The New Economy in retrospect	14
	The legacy effects of the New Economy	16
	The New Economy and financialization	17
	The geographies of the New Economy	18
	About this book	20
	Notes	24
	References	24
	Introduction	26
	2 Making sense of the New Economy? Realities, myths and geographies	26
	What is the New Economy?	28
	The contentious claims of the New Economy discourse	34
	Where is the ‘New Economy’? The exaggerated death of geography	42
	New Economy – new challenges?	50
	References	55
	Introduction	60
	3 The Old Economy	60
	What are economies/economic geographies?	61
	‘Old’ critiques of the ‘New’ Economy	62
	‘Old’ Europe and New Economies?	72
	Conclusion: stasis or change in a New Economy?	77
	Acknowledgements	78
	Notes	78
	References	79
	Introduction	82
	4 The New Economy, or the Emperor’s new clothes?	82
	The New Economy: evidence and concepts	83
	New media: definitions	88
	Revolution, business as usual, or something else?	93
	Further reading	95
	Notes	95
	References	95
	Introduction	98
	Introducing e-commerce	98
	5 The New Old Thing: e- commerce geographies after the dot. com boom	98
	The New New Thing: the dot.com boom	101
	The Old New Thing: the dot.com bust	102
	The New Old Thing: e-commerce geographies after the dot. com boom and bust	104
	Global diffusion of e-commerce	105
	eBay: making inefficient markets efficient	109
	Craigslist: grassroots globalization	110
	Evolving firm value chains	113
	Conclusions	115
	Acknowledgement	116
	Notes	116
	References	118
	Introduction	122
	6 The New Economy and earnings inequalities: explaining social, spatial and gender divisions in the UK and London	122
	Rising inequality	123
	The New Economy and spatial inequality – ‘superstar’ regions	129
	Conclusion	138
	Notes	139
	References	139
	Introduction	143
	Aspects of the New Economy as they affect workers	143
	7 Labour organizing in the New Economy: examples from the USA and beyond	143
	Spatialities of labour union activity	145
	Conclusion	158
	Notes	159
	References	160
	Introduction: the New Economy in Southeast Asia	162
	8 New aspirations and old dilemmas: the New Economy and development in Southeast Asia	162
	Situating Southeast Asia	164
	New aspirations: the New Economy as a developmental strategy	169
	Countervailing tendencies (old dilemmas)	173
	Outcomes and future potentials	176
	Notes	179
	References	179
	9 Russia’s New Economy	181
	Introduction	181
	The service gap in Soviet type economies	182
	The structural consequences of Russia’s economic transformation	185
	Development of the New (knowledge) Economy	190
	Case studies – The Internet and ICT	194
	Discussion: another path to a ‘knowledge economy’?	202
	Conclusion	203
	Notes	203
	References	204
	Index	206