Rulers

Name: Rulers
SKU: 9781804297346
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Author: Cecilia Rikap
ISBN: 9781804297346

Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvCecilia Rikap

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Capitalism's rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney, McDonalds, Nike or Walmart depend on them to use AI for knowledge and value extraction and for disciplining workers. States see some of their core functions sequestered. Innovation is not a free and neutral game, but a hierarchy topped by the rulers. Rikap's new theoretical framework is grounded in a unique trove of 112 interviews at the world's largest firms and data on venture capital, acquisitions, open source, AI conferences and patents. They picture a map of the complexities and political implications of corporate power. In Rikap's counterimage, technology is developed by the people and for the people and the planet through democratic planning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-08-04
Mått232 x 24 x 147 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804297346

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Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at the University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is also a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina's national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is the author of Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge), which recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition, and The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order (Palgrave), the latter co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall.

Cecilia Rikap is one of the most interesting and energetic researchers on AI, and The Rulers is a magnificent, devastating book. Rather than provide character studies of rich men, Rikap advances the Big Tech argument with a trove of insider interviews and data and compelling heterodox analysis that demonstrates how a few companies are subjugating politics and academic knowledge. The Cloud is engulfing democracy.