Platform capitalism

by Srnicek, Nick

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Title Statements

Full title :Platform capitalism / Nick Srnicek

Summary

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."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:vi, 171 pages ; : 19 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781509504862 (hardback), 1509504869 (hardback), 9781509504879 (pbk.), 1509504877 (pbk.)
oclc:on1099710962
LC Classification:HC79.I55
Dewey Decimal:330.12209

The long downturn -- Platform capitalism -- Great platform wars

Subjects

Business enterprises businesses (business enterprises) Capitalism Capitalism -- History Entreprises firms History Information technology -- Economic aspe… informationsteknologi kapitalisme Multi-sided platform businesses Plateformes multifaces Technologie de l'information -- Aspect …