Stories by Elizabeth Corcoran

Polluting Rights

How to build a market for an unwanted commodity

Light Talk

U.S. and Japanese compete to put optical fibers in the home

The Analytical Economist: The Cost of Capital

The Analytical Economist: Seasoning Leading Economic Indicators with Salt

Dirty Business

How companies are seeking their fortunes in garbage

The Analytical Economist: Tracking the Unemployed

A Technological Fix

The U.S. searches for a stand on technology

The Analytical Economist: CPI and Inflation

The CPI should measure inflation. Your mileage may vary.

Show and Tell

Hypermedia turns information into a multisensory event

The Analytical Economist: Is the U.S. national debt a problem?

Technology Transfer

Research consortiums look for ways to work with backers

An Alliance for Progress?

European technology companies hope for a boost from 1992

Competitive Climate

Industry leaders look to the Government for a new era

Supercomputing

Preeminence in computing takes more than a fast machine

Disequilibrium

Might bacteria someday help to explain international debt?

Gene Therapy in Gestation

Three companies hope to turn it into medical reality

Patent Medicine

New patents challenge Congress and courts

Picture Computation

Computer makers vie to build "graphics supercomputers"

Groupware

Beyond number crunching: computers aid management

Making Mice

Biotechnology: surviving the adolescent years