IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sek/iahpro/9311611.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Exploiting the ?Communist Threat?, for the Privatized Internet

Author

Listed:
  • Noel Packard

    (University of Auckland)

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

  • Noel Packard, 2019. "Exploiting the ?Communist Threat?, for the Privatized Internet," Proceedings of Arts & Humanities Conferences 9311611, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
  • Handle: RePEc:sek:iahpro:9311611
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iises.net/proceedings/5th-arts-humanities-conference-copenhagen/table-of-content/detail?cid=93&iid=006&rid=11611
    File Function: First version, 2019
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Noel Packard, 2019. "Alienating Marx(ists) from the Cold War into Surveillance Capitalism," Proceedings of International Academic Conferences 9211641, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
    2. Robert Leeson, 2000. "The Eclipse of Keynesianism," Palgrave Macmillan Books, Palgrave Macmillan, number 978-0-333-98565-6, December.
    3. repec:ucp:bkecon:9780226089553 is not listed on IDEAS
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Thomas Mayer, 2003. "The Monetarist Policy Debate: An Informal Survey," Working Papers 299, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics.
    2. Michel De Vroey, 2004. "The History of Macroeconomics Viewed against the Background of the Marshall-Walras Divide," History of Political Economy, Duke University Press, vol. 36(5), pages 57-91, Supplemen.
    3. Malcolm Rutherford, 2010. "Chicago Economics and Institutionalism," Chapters, in: Ross B. Emmett (ed.), The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, chapter 2, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Yefimov, Vladumir, 2011. "Дискурсивный Анализ В Экономике: Пересмотр Методологии И Истории Экономической Науки. Часть 2 - Иная История И Современность [Discourse analysis in economics: methodology and history of economics r," MPRA Paper 49069, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Mark Scott & Iain White & Christian Kuhlicke & Annett Steinführer & Parvin Sultana & Paul Thompson & John Minnery & Eoin O'Neill & Jonathan Cooper & Mark Adamson & Elizabeth Russell, 2013. "Living with flood risk/The more we know, the more we know we don't know: Reflections on a decade of planning, flood risk management and false precision/Searching for resilience or building social capa," Planning Theory & Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(1), pages 103-140, March.
    6. Dejene Mamo Bekana, 2016. "What Causes Inflation in a Post Communist Economy? Evidence from Ethiopia," Romanian Economic Journal, Department of International Business and Economics from the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, vol. 19(61), pages 3-46, September.
    7. Ötsch, Walter Otto, 2015. "Die Politische Ökonomie "des" Marktes: Eine Zusammenfassung zur Wirkungsgeschichte von Friedrich A. Hayek," Working Paper Serie des Instituts für Ökonomie Ök-10, Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung (HfGG), Institut für Ökonomie.
    8. Peter Docherty, 2012. "Keynes’s General Theory, the Quantity Theory of Money and Monetary Policy," Chapters, in: Thomas Cate (ed.), Keynes’s General Theory, chapter 6, Edward Elgar Publishing.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Internet; neoliberal; DARPA; Communist Threat; Cold War; national security;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
    • H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sek:iahpro:9311611. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Klara Cermakova (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://iises.net/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.