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Platform capitalism / Nick Srnicek.
Author
Srnicek, Nick
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, [2017]
©2017
Description
vi, 171 pages ; 19 cm.
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HC79.I55 S685 2017
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Subject(s)
Information technology
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Economic aspects
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Business enterprises
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Multi-sided platform businesses
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Capitalism
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History
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Essays
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2017
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Series
Theory redux
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Summary note
"What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of 'platform capitalism'. This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy."--Publisher's description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-171).
Contents
The long downturn
Platform capitalism
Great platform wars.
ISBN
9781509504862 ((hardback))
1509504869 ((hardback))
9781509504879 ((pbk.))
1509504877 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2016023187
OCLC
964878395
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