Unit 1 Why Internet Shares Will Fall? 1
Unit 2 Dotty about Dot. Commerce? 10
Unit 3 Global Silicon Valleys? First Kill All the Subsidies 18
Unit 4 World’s Biggest Tag Sale 26
Unit 5 The Internet’s Second Coming Web-enabled phones hit the U.S. market 36
Unit 6 These Days, Who Isn’t a Venture Capitalist? 45
Unit 7 Overworked and Overpaid: the American Manager 53
Unit 8 Computers and Wages 65
Unit 9 Trade and Wages 74
Unit 10 The Trouble with Stock Options 81
Unit 11 Show Them the Money 90
Unit 12 Cash Point 98
Unit 13 Conglomerates on Trial 108
Unit 14 2001 Index of Economic Freedom 115
Unit 15 Unfinished Battle 128
Unit 16 A Loss of Appetite 137
Unit 17 The Risks to Free Trade 146
Unit 18 Fuel and Fury 154
Unit 19 A Shocking Error 164
Unit 20 The Real Menace 172
Unit 21 Healthcare Reform: The Real Stakes 181
Unit 22 How Much Transparency for the ECB? 189
Unit 23 Corporate Hospitality 196
Unit 24 Preying on Theory 206
Unit 25 Shares Without the Other Bit 214
Unit 26 The Economy Looks Poised to Pick up a Notch 222
Key to Exercises 228