The global spread of the digital revolution and the need to manage the climate have
radically altered the international trade landscape and have rendered the architecture of the …

There is increasing consensus that modern capitalist economies suffer from excessive rent
extraction in both financial and real economy sectors. However, scholars have yet to …

We outline a theory of algorithmic attention rents in digital aggregator platforms. We explore
the way that as platforms grow, they become increasingly capable of extracting rents from a …

Cancel culture in China has multiple specificities that invite further investigation, given the
role of the state in producing content and regulating media platforms, alongside the distinct …

I combine quantitative methodologies and in-depth interviews to analyse United States Big
Tech different strategies to organize and profit from their AI corporate innovation systems …

We investigate Amazon's ability to direct user clicks to more visually prominent search
results, even as quality declines with the increasing prevalence of sponsored advertising …

Digital personal data are increasingly hoarded in data enclaves controlled by Big Tech.
These large digital technology businesses dominate their markets through the pursuit of a …

This paper evaluates the conflict between the emerging forces of decentralization and
artificial intelligence. In general, the forces that lead towards decentralization are often …

Digital personal data are valuable; most people agree on this. However, we do not agree on
either how valuable data are or how to value data. I run through the various valuation …

This chapter investigates the multifaceted approaches nations adopt in governing and
regulating artificial intelligence (AI). It examines the divergent paths taken by the European …