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commerce This page is under development. For the moment there are more detailed pointers in the separate Economy guide.      global capital Robert Gilpin's The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21st Century (Princeton, Princeton Uni Press 00) and Saskia Sassen's Globalization & Its Discontents: Essays On The New Mobility of People & Money (New York, New Press 99) map the terrain.  Exploring E-Commerce, Global E-Business & E-Societies (Upper Saddle River, Prentice Hall 00) by Craig Fellenstein & Ron Wood is a drier academic study. We recommend instead Wendy Currie's The Global Information Society: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century Corporation (New York, Wiley 00). The American Internet Advantage: Global Themes & Implications of the Modern World (Lanham, University Press of America 00) is a crisp examination by  Michael Hart of ongoing US dominance of the web. the cyberlibertarians who are so terrified of big government seem to have no problems with big business. The fundamental structure of the Net will prevent corporate dominance, Wired founder Lou Rossetto thus argued that "this revolution really is out of control ... and the larger the company at the top, the more clueless they are."    next page  (work)