Description: SIGNED COLLECTIBLE BRAND NEW FIRST EDITION First Printing dust jacket hardcover, clean NEW text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library, smoke-free; slight gentle shelfwear / storage wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. SIGNED: "For Hal Hope this meets your expectations. Regards, Jim Cortada" (author) Personal copy of Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google, holding the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Varian is an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He received his B.S. from MIT in economics in 1969 and both his M.A. in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973. Varian, in the course of a long and distinguished career, has made a seminal contribution to many branches of economics. he Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century. It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries embraced the computer and changed the American economy. Computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in America. However it is difficult to grasp the full extent of these changes and their implications for the future of business. To begin the long process of understanding the effects of computing in American business, we need to know the history of how computers were first used, by whom and why. In this, the second volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's and telecomunications' role in over a dozen industries, ranging from Old Economy sectors like finance and publishing to New Economy sectors like digital photography and video games. 4 02 232
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Features: Signed
Number of Pages: 656 Pages
Publication Name: Digital Hand Vol. 2 : Volume II: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: General, Information Management, Management, History, Industrial Technology, Enterprise Applications / General, Information Technology
Publication Year: 2005
Item Height: 1.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 44.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.6 in
Author: James W. Cortada
Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
