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Cloud empires [electronic resource] : how digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control / Vili Lehdonvirta.

1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Three Thousand Years of History in Thirty Years -- The Ancient Problem -- Inspiration from Our Ancestors -- How to Read This Book -- Part I: Economic Institutions -- 2. Reciprocity: The Golden Rule in Cyberspace -- Digital Cowboy -- A Declaration of Independence -- The Problem of Exchange -- Evolution of Cooperation -- Trouble at the Electronic Market -- A Global Market for Labor? -- Eternal September -- Bodily Needs -- 3. From Reputation To Regulation: The Birth of a Giant -- Echobay​.com -- Five out of Five -- Bags and Bags of Envelopes -- Blackmail
Dead People Don't Write Reviews -- A Universe of Rules -- 4. The Privacy Dilemma: Maintaining Order In a Masquerade -- Mask of Dread Pirate Roberts -- A Most Brazen Attempt -- Holiday Surprise -- Unmasked -- The Privacy Dilemma -- Your Virtual Passport -- 5. Death Of Distance, Resurrection Of Borders: Labor Markets in Cyberspace -- The Tyranny of Distance -- "You May Say You Attended Harvard . . ." -- Same Work, Different Pay -- Globalization in Cyberspace -- The Edges of Clouds -- 6. Centrally Planned Free Markets: Programming a Soviet Union 2.0? -- Eliminating Human Imperfections
A "Smarter" Marketplace -- The Algorithm Becomes the Market -- The Perfect Market -- Badges and Nudges -- Sleepwalking into Soviet Union 2.0 -- Optimal to Whom? -- Part II: Political Institutions -- 7. Network Effect: From Digital Revolutionary to Everything Emperor -- Dashed Ambitions -- Liftoff -- A Digital Revolution -- "Egalitarian in the Best Sense" -- "Amazon Has Crushed Another Little Guy" -- El Comandante -- 8. Cryptocracy: The Quest To Replace Politics with Technology -- Problem of Trust -- Thwarting the Sybil Attack -- The Most Dangerous Project -- A Bug in the Machine
Software Update -- Competing Interests -- A Broken Market for Rules -- Trusted Central Parties -- Rise of Cryptocracy -- 9. Collective Action I: Workers of the Internet, Unite? -- Artificial Artificial Intelligence -- Turker Nation -- Adult Content -- "Not Enough for Anyone in Government to Care" -- Digital Workers of the World -- The Free-Rider Problem -- "How Dare You Take from the Little Guys?" -- Advent of Platform Politics -- 10. Collective Action II: Rise of a Digital Middle Class -- Customers in over Twenty Countries -- David versus Goliath -- "I'm Going to Lose my Company"
"Team Up to Make Our Voices Louder" -- Rise of a Digital Middle Class -- Part III: Social Institutions -- 11. The Digital Safety Net: Social Protection and Education in a Platform Economy -- Technological Unemployment -- Certified by Google -- Fraying Welfare State -- Enter the Digital Safety Net -- Engaging the Audience -- Care by Amazon -- People versus Profits -- 12. Conclusions -- Understanding the Great Betrayal -- Why Platforms Are Overtaking the State -- States without Estates -- Building a Digital Single Market -- Deposing Digital Despots -- A Failing Market for Rules

"Companies like Amazon, Upwork, Apple's App Store, and Ebay are shaping the world and the prospects of millions of people who depend on them for their livelihoods. This book explores the implications of this power and shows how it compares with traditional statecraft"-- Provided by publisher.

Cyberspace, Social aspects.
Cyberspace, Economic aspects.
Digital media.
Central planning.
Power (Social sciences)
Cyberespace, Aspect social.
Cyberespace, Aspect économique.
Médias numériques.
Planification impérative.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Central planning.
Cyberspace, Economic aspects.
Cyberspace, Social aspects.
Digital media.
Power (Social sciences)
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet

Print version : Lehdonvirta, Vili. Cloud empires. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022] 9780262047227

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