A century-spanning exploration of the power of platforms, what the future of capitalism will look like, and how to build economies that provide equality and lasting prosperity.
Where Wu’s previous books were once dazzlingly prescient, The Age of Extraction reads more like an intelligent and useful guide to a dispiriting present ... As much as The Age of Extraction is a guide to our brave new world, the remedies Wu proposes are old-fashioned and straightforward.
Wu argues that government can redistribute tech platforms’ power in a way that benefits the middle class and workers and abolish tech monopolies without fully redistributing wealth ... An engaging argument for anti-monopolization. Recommended for readers interested in the economics of technology.
