Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era

Arguing that the Internet stock market boom and bust was a social and cultural phenomenon driven by historical forces similar to those of other speculative booms of past centuries, Cassidy demonstrates how technology provided the raw material for the boom, and points out the many unique factors that helped it expand until it burst. Case studies allow students to see economic history in the making—providing a wealth of classroom discussion topics, from economic policy to ethics.

“Dot.con will be read by generations of Wharton and Harvard B—school graduates as yet unborn.”

—Wall Street Journal

“I can’t recommend it more strongly.”

—John Kenneth Galbraith