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Beschreibung

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."

Also available as an audiobook.

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."

Also available as an audiobook.

Über den Autor

Nick Srnicek is a lecturer in international politics at City, University of London, and co-author of the influential Accelerate Manifesto.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1

1 The Long Downturn 9

2 Platform Capitalism 36

3 Great Platform Wars 93

Notes 130

References 141

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Theory Redux
Inhalt: 175 S.
ISBN-13: 9781509504879
ISBN-10: 1509504877
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Srnicek, Nick
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Theory Redux
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße: 190 x 123 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Nick Srnicek
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.11.2016
Gewicht: 0,197 kg
Artikel-ID: 103770748