Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics
Advanced Introduction to Platform Economics

Author: Robin Mansell

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-08-28

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1789900611

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Artificial intelligence-enabled digital platforms collect and process data from and about users. These companies are largely self-regulating in Western countries. How do economic theories explain the rise of a very few dominant platforms? Mansell and Steinmueller compare and contrast neoclassical, institutional and critical political economy explanations. They show how these perspectives can lead to contrasting claims about platform benefits and harms. Uneven power relationships between platform operators and their users are treated differently in these economic traditions. Sometimes leading to advocacy for regulation or for public provision of digital services. Sometimes indicating restraint and precaution. The authors challenge the reader to think beyond the inevitability of platform dominance to create new visions of how platforms might operate in the future.

Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism
Work and Labour Relations in Global Platform Capitalism

Author: Haidar, Julieta

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-11-19

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1802205136

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This engaging and timely book provides an in-depth analysis of work and labour relations within global platform capitalism with a specific focus on digital platforms that organise labour processes, known as labour platforms. Well-respected contributors thoroughly examine both online and offline platforms, their distinct differences and the important roles they play for both large transnational companies and those with a smaller global reach.

Understanding the Blockchain Economy
Understanding the Blockchain Economy

Author: Chris Berg

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1788975006

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Blockchains are the distributed ledger technology that powers Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But blockchains can be used for more than the transfer of tokens – they are a significant new economic infrastructure. This book offers the first scholarly analysis of the economic nature of blockchains and the shape of the blockchain economy. By applying the institutional economics of Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson, this book shows how blockchains are poised to reshape the nature of firms, governments, markets, and civil society.

Platform Economics
Platform Economics

Author: Cristiano Codagnone

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2018-11-23

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1787438090

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Platform Economics tackles head on the rhetoric surrounding the so-called 'sharing economy' which has muddied public debate and has contributed to a lack of policy and regulatory intervention.

A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy
A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy

Author: Drahokoupil, Jan

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1788975103

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Providing an insightful analysis of the key issues and significant trends relating to labour within the platform economy, this Modern Guide considers the existing comparative evidence covering all world regions. It also provides an in-depth look at digital labour platforms in their historical, economic and geographical contexts.

The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video
The Content, Impact, and Regulation of Streaming Video

Author: Eli Noam

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-01-29

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1800375026

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Along with its interrelated companion volume, The Technology, Business, and Economics of Streaming Video, this book examines the next generation of TV—online video. It reviews the elements that lead to online platforms and video clouds and analyzes the software and hardware elements of content creation and interaction, and how these elements lead to different styles of video content.

A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics
A Modern Guide to Philosophy of Economics

Author: Kincaid, Harold

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-08-27

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1788974468

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This insightful Modern Guide offers a broad coverage of questions and controversies encountered by contemporary economists. A refreshing approach to philosophy of economics, chapters comprise a range of methodological and theoretical perspectives, from lab and field experiments to macroeconomics and applied policy work, written using a familiar, accessible language for economists.

Platform Capitalism
Platform Capitalism

Author: Nick Srnicek

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1509504885

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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." Also available as an audiobook.

Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions
Research Handbook on Economic Sanctions

Author: van Bergeijk, Peter A.G.

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-12-10

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 1839102721

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Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, complemented with research on the impact of sanctions.