Technology and Inequality : Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World /

This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the rol...

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Main Authors: Allen, Jonathan P
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Published: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Cham :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56958-1
Summary: This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the role of technology in inequality, the book will have a unifying theme of tracing wealth creation and wealth capture in the technology sector, and relating specific practices what technology companies actually do to larger shifts in wealth and power. A clear conceptual framework will be used to analyz
Carrier Form: 1 online resource(XI,158pages): illustrations
ISBN: 9783319569581
Index Number: HD28
CLC: F403.6
Contents: 1. Why Is Inequality Increasing in a Digital World? -- 2. Information Technology and Wealth Concentration -- 3. The Digital Economy: New Markets, New Gatekeepers -- 4. Regulation and Taxation -- 5. Models, Mediation, and Mobilization -- 6. Technology and Inequality Case Study: Search -- 7. Technology and Inequality Case Study: Social Media -- 8. Technology and Inequality Case Study: The Sharing Economy -- 9. Restoring Technology as an Engine of Opportunity.