Buyer Beware: Today's Web Frontier is Like Deadwood in the 1860s

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Buyer Beware: Today's Web Frontier is Like Deadwood in the 1860s

Posted October 21, 2008 | | Amplify

When Adam Smith wrote about the "invisible hand" of the market in The Wealth of Nations, he was referring to strictly legal actions by individuals, which in their aggregate contributed to market efficiency. What he didn't talk about was illegal tendencies that the invisible hand might bring about.

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Tom DeMarco

Tom DeMarco is a Cutter Consortium Fellow. He served on the Editorial Board of Cutter IT Journal (now Amplify) for more than 2 decades. Tom has been a frequent keynoter and moderator at Cutter Summits. Mr. DeMarco is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild. He was the winner of the 1986 Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing" and the 1999 Wayne Stevens Prize for "contribution to software methods." His best-selling… Read More

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Buyer Beware: Today's Web Frontier is Like Deadwood in the 1860s

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