Political Economy
Platform Capitalism
- Author / institution
- Nick Srnicek
- Year
- 2017
- Publication type
- Book
- Published in
- Polity
Book2017Why it is in the Library
Foundational reading on economic concentration in tech, indispensable context to assess what decentralization promises and what it delivers.
About the work
Srnicek analyzes data extraction as raw material, network effects and the tendency towards monopoly, classifying different kinds of platforms (advertising, cloud, industrial, product and lean).
Themes
Bibliographic reference
SRNICEK, Nick. Platform Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity, 2017.
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