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The Digital Era 2
Political Economy Revisited
Jean-Pierre Chamoux (Edited by), JP Chamoux (Author)
9781786301918, Wiley
Hardback, published 19 February 2019
256 pages
23.9 x 16.3 x 2 cm, 0.522 kg
Over 200 years, industry has mastered iron, fire, power and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects with the widespread integration of chips; from computers and telephones to keys, games and white goods. Data, software and computation structure our behavior and the organization of our lives. Everything is translated into data: the digit is king.
Consisting of three volumes, The Digital Era explores technical, economic and social phenomena that result from the generalization of the Internet. This second volume discusses the impact of digital technology on the evolution of market relations and the media and examines the reasons why such changes put political economy to the test.
Note to Reader ix Preface xi Introduction xxvii Part 1. A Disruptive Economy 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Chapter 1. Companies: the Great Transformation 7 Information: the raw material of digital technology 10 The causes of disruption and their limits 14 The business philosophy of digital technology 15 Moving upmarket and buybacks 16 Concluding reflections 19 Bibliography 21 Chapter 2. Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity 23 User-generated content: scaling up 26 Books, authors and communities 30 Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies 35 Do it yourself with music: new creativity? 39 Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work? 40 Video games: co-innovators? 43 Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model 45 Bibliography 47 Chapter 3. New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms 55 What has changed? 57 Intermediation 58 Platform economics 60 Laws of the digital economy 63 Going towards a new management of resources 69 Building political legitimacy 71 Conclusion 74 Bibliography 75 Part 2. New Perspectives 77 Introduction to Part 2 79 Chapter 4. The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About? 81 Numerous examples 83 Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer 85 Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation’s triumph 87 How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized? 91 Are commons manageable? 93 Looking at the future of collaborative peer-to-peer 96 Conclusion 97 Bibliography 99 Chapter 5. Towards a Post-industrial iconomy 101 Summary of previous times 103 Real and imagined digital influence 104 Can an intelligence be artificial? 109 Distinguishing power from intelligence 113 In summary: towards the iconomy? 115 Conclusion and recommendations 121 Bibliography 123 Chapter 6. The Chips Industry: Moore and Rock’s Laws 125 Some words about technique: where do we stand today? 127 High-tech production 128 An original economy 129 Rock’s law leads to concentration 130 De-integration, specialization and reconfiguration 132 How to stay in the lead pack? 133 Bibliography 135 Chapter 7. Measuring and Compiling Wealth 137 National accounting and gross revenue 140 Consequences of post-industrial society 145 How can the digital economy be better described? 150 Elements for a summary 154 Bibliography 157 Appendix A. Microelectronics: a typically multinational sector 158 Appendix B. Trade, currencies and digital disruption 161 Conclusion 165 Appendices 187 Appendix 1 189 Appendix 2 191 List of Authors 193 Index of Names and Brands 195 Index of Notions 199
Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX
Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX
Godefroy DANG N’GUYEN
Jean-Paul SIMON
Stéphane GRUMBACH
Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX
Godefroy DANG N’GUYEN
Michel VOLLE
Gérard DRÉAN
Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX
Jean-Pierre CHAMOUX
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
