In late 2020, the US government initiated legal suits against two Big Tech firms. In October,
the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and 11 State Attorneys General filed a lawsuit against …

The structure of the UK's private rental sector (PRS) is being disrupted by a new series of
rental proptech platforms (RPPs). These start-ups are adopting technologies including …

In this guest introduction, we explore emerging critiques at the frontiers of techno-economic
rentiership. Rentiership is a process entailing political-economic and technological (ie …

Smart cities are now an established context in which data and digital technologies shape
urban politics. Despite increased scholarly focus on algorithmic governance, smart cities …

Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today's media systems Media backends--
the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our …

Digital markets are regularly equated with digital capitalism. However, markets are also
central features of longstanding other economic systems, such as the bush markets of …

We examine the rise of crowdfunding platforms in the wake of the global financial crisis,
particularly the claim that they offer an alternative to established methods of raising capital …

The articles in this Special Issue arose from a workshop in June 2021 (https://peoplelikeyou.
ac. uk/activities/people-like-you-a-new-political-arithmetic/) which considered whether we …

Significant parts of the work of the great economist and economic visionary János Kornai
function as a magnifying glass in economic theory, philosophy and history. Kornai examined …

Cette thèse se compose de quatre études portant sur le rôle des technologies de
l'information comme outils de contrôle dans l'ordre marchand. La notion de contrôle est …