Statistical demand-pull in 1930’s U.S.A and Germany: Good will, welfare and warfare

Packard, Noel

doi:10.1080/23311886.2018.1531737

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“…Post WWII America generated a middle class that for the most part cherished the New Deal programs FDR installed that guarded against the ravages of the Depression and modernized the government's data-banking capabilities (Packard 2018). Keynesian, institutional or government regulation of the economy helped dampen business cycles, avoid depressions, unemployment and inflation (Keynes 1953(Keynes /1964).…”

Section: Part Two: the Rise Of Neo-liberalism And The Chicago Schoolmentioning

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Exploiting the “Communist Threat“, for the Privatized Internet

Packard¹

2019

Proceedings of the 5th Arts &Amp; Humanities Conference, Copenhagen

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Levine's Surveillance Valley reports how the Internet was privatized without public debate or resistance but overlooks decades of neoliberal economic and anti-communist purging history that had chilling effects on public resistance to Internet privatization-that history gap is explored here. How did military-industrial-complex contractors, using neoliberal and Communist threat rational, incentivize Internet development, while lessening the possibility of public interference to Internet privatization? Weber's special-skilled-occupational-status-group-theory is overlaid onto neoliberal economic and military-industrial-complex history to argue occupational-contractor-status-groups, with their monopoly access to early computer technology, fulfilled neoliberal doctrine by creating and protecting private markets for the Internet and exploited Communist threat rational to help clear the privatization path of people who might impede market plans.

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Section: Part Two: the Rise Of Neo-liberalism And The Chicago Schoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploiting the “Communist Threat“, for the Privatized Internet

Packard¹

2019

Proceedings of the 5th Arts &Amp; Humanities Conference, Copenhagen

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Overlooked history in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Packard

2018

Journal of Media Economics

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Three kinds of demand pull for the ARPANET into the Internet

Packard

2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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This essay examines how the US government intelligence community (IC) as well as the public and commercial sectors contributed demand-pull, in different ways, for an unregulated, privatized Internet. Demand-pull entails more demand than supply, or a shortage in supply (such as a shortage in networks and thus a demand-pull for them). It is argued that an excessive supply of Cold War era IC spy data, which required high-speed data processing, incentivized ARPANET expansion. In the public sector, people wanted expanded networks for personal computing and in the commercial sector there was demand-pull for unregulated networks that bootlegged and gifted PROMIS derived software could be harnessed to. The IC demand pulled for their own cloned and separate networks, while the public demand pulled for their own networks and commercial interests demand pulled for unregulated, privatized and expanded networks. Together these different demand-pull scenarios incentivized a speedy and unchallenged privatization of an Internet that was neither owned nor regulated by any one government or company.

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Statistical demand-pull in 1930’s U.S.A and Germany: Good will, welfare and warfare

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Exploiting the “Communist Threat“, for the Privatized Internet

Exploiting the “Communist Threat“, for the Privatized Internet

Overlooked history in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Three kinds of demand pull for the ARPANET into the Internet

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