What stories should we be covering? Win a subscription to In These Times by taking our short new survey!

Enronomics 101

Business as usual in the disinformation economy

By David Moberg

Even more than the dot-coms, Enron—the aptly nicknamed “crooked E”—was the star of the new “information economy.” During the past decade, economic fortune-tellers said that the future of business lay in exploiting the Internet and information technologies to create boundless productivity growth and profits. At the same time, there was a continued ideological push toward deregulation of all markets, and financial… return to article

Also by David Moberg
Popular Discussions