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Platform Capitalism

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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."


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Series: Theory Redux Publisher: Polity Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: December 22, 2016

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781509504909
  • File size: 270 KB
  • Release date: December 22, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781509504909
  • File size: 270 KB
  • Release date: December 22, 2016

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

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."


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Polity Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: December 22, 2016

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781509504909
    File size: 270 KB
    Release date: December 22, 2016

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781509504909
    File size: 270 KB
    Release date: December 22, 2016

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English