That's led some utopians, like Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, authors of the book "Wikinomics, " to predict the rise of "mass collaboration" as the new form of economic organization.

WSJ: The End of Management

We have both a need and an opportunity to devise a new form of economic organization, and a new science of management, that can deal with the breakneck realities of 21st century change.

WSJ: The End of Management

Specifically they note that unlike in 2008, governments and central banks hardly have any ammunition left in the form of new economic stimulus programs and lower interest rates.

FORBES: FOCUS: Financial Market Break Revives Memories of 2008

Given the chance, economic growth will prevent a new time bomb--in the form of credit default swaps--from exploding.

FORBES: Transcript: A. Michael Lipper

The digital citizen is, yes, postpolitical conservative on economic issues, but socially liberal helping to create on the Net a new form of highly devolved democracy based on consensus and rationalism.

ECONOMIST: Information technology

Business investment in the United States by both domestic and foreign firms, whether in the form of new equipment or facilities or the expansion of existing facilities, is a major engine of economic growth and job creation.

WHITEHOUSE: Executive Order 13577--SelectUSA Initiative