Cloud Empires
How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control
(Sprache: Englisch)
"Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"--
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"Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Cloud Empires “
1 Introduction 1Part I: Economic Institutions
2 Reciprocity: The Golden Rule in Cyberspace 15
3 From Reputation to Regulation: The Birth of a Giant 35
4 The Privacy Dilemma: Maintaining Order in a Masquerade 53
5 Death of Distance, Resurrection of Borders: Labor Markets in Cyberspace 71
6 Centrally Planned Free Markets: Programming a Soviet Union 2.0? 91
Part II: Political Institutions
7 Network Effect: From Digital Revolutionary to Everything Emperor 113
8 Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology 131
9 Collective Action I: Workers of the Internet, Unite? 155
10 Collective Action II: Rise of a Digital Middle Class 173
Autoren-Porträt von Vili Lehdonvirta
Vili Lehdonvirta is Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. A former software developer, he is the coauthor of Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis (MIT Press).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Vili Lehdonvirta
- 2024, VI, 283 Seiten, 14 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 13,8 x 22 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: The MIT Press
- ISBN-10: 0262548380
- ISBN-13: 9780262548380
- Erscheinungsdatum: 06.02.2024
Sprache:
Englisch
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