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Net Loss: Internet Profits, Private Profits and the Costs to Community

See profile of Net Loss at Penn State Press.

See original version, Net Loss: The Political Economy of Community in the Age of the Internet- Ph.D. Dissertation in Sociology from UC-Berkeley 1998


Is Labor Missing the Internet Third Wave?- WorkingUSA (June 2005)

Trade Secrets and Collective Bargaining: A Solution to Resolving Tensions in the Economics of Innovation- Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal (2002)

Database Protection: Rewarding Sweat or Destroying Fair Use- Background paper for Yale Law Private Censorship/Perfect Choice conference (April 1999).

The Great Internet Tax Drain from MIT Technology Review(May/June 1996)

Prop 13 Meets the Internet: How State And Local Government Finances Are Becoming Road Kill On The Information Superhighway- Report by the Center for Community Economic Research at University of California, Berkeley (August 1995)
Popular Writing


  • Big Pharma, Bad Science (Aug. 25, 2002)- compromised science and biomedicine.

  • Storming the Gates (March 27 2000) - the open source alternative to Microsoft
  • Should Public Policy Promote Open-Source Software? (April 3, 2000) - roundtable web discussion on Storming the Gates

    Populist Columns

  • GOP Tries To Pin The Enron/Worldcom Rap On Clinton (August 2002)
  • The Telecom Meltdown: Why The Government Should Have Built The Information Superhighway (September 15, 2001)
  • How Microsoft Lost Big At The Appeals Court: Antitrust And Software Standards In The Internet Era (September 1, 2001)
  • A Broadband Mandate?: Communities and Workers Win a Round in Internet Legislation (June 15, 2001)

    Other Technology Articles
  • The Hypocrisy Of ISP Welfare And The Myth Of The Cyber Free Market. ENODE (July 1997).
  • NCs- The End Of Personal Computing? ENODE (January 1997).
  • How private business almost derailed the Internet, CNET NEWS.COM (January 3, 1997.)
  • How Microchips Create Megabanks. ENODE (October 1996).
  • "Third Wave" Unionism Takes To The Net. ENODE (August 1996).
  • A Site License for China? Intellectual Property in a "Have-Not" World (July 1996)
  • Virtual Sunshine May Rain On Local Economic Development. ENODE (June 1996).
    • NetAction Microsoft Campaign

  • The Origins and Future of Open Source Software(1999) - A NetAction white paper on open source software
  • Browser Update: One Year Later(5/98)
  • The Future of E-Commerce(3/98)
    Microsoft's Threat to the Online Financial Marketplace
  • From Microsoft Word to Microsoft World(11/97) NetAction's White Paper examines Microsoft's global strategy

    Micro$oft Monitor- NetAction newsletter articles on Microsoft campaign: selected issues below