The Second Billion: The Internet Going Forward

April, 2007      Download this brief (PDF).

By Ward Hanson

Ward Hanson has spent the last ten years looking at the growth of the first billion Internet users and is excited about the second. He has published two texts on the business impact of the Internet, his most recent Internet Marketing and Ecommerce appearing in the Fall of 2006. Hanson received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, and has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago, Purdue University, and Stanford University Graduate School of Business prior to joining the Center for Research on Employment and Economic Growth at SIEPR, where he is also the Policy Forum Director.