"New economy" can mean lots of different things to different people. "E-conomy" is supposed to focus attention on the impact of communications and data processing technologies...(posted 8737 days ago)A short definition.... That is much harder, since I am not yet sure what the impact of data communications and data processing technologies on the rest of the economy are...
For two attempts at *long* answers, you can look at:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/OpEd/virtual/technet/spmicro.ht ml
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/OpEd/virtual/technet/TfT.html