The knowledge economy

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. This book explores ...

Platform socialism

how to reclaim our digital future from big tech

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century ...

Marx and the robots

networked production, AI and human labour

Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological developments within capitalist ...

Going remote

how the flexible work economy can improve our lives and our cities

A leading urban economist's hopeful study of how shifts to remote work can change all of our lives for the better. As COVID-19 descended upon the country in 2020, millions of American office workers transitioned to working from home to reduce risk of infection ...

Access rules

freeing data from big tech for a better future

A powerful and urgent call to action: to improve our lives and our societies, we must demand open access to data for all. Information is power, and the time is now for digital liberation. Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational ...

Innovación social y elementos diferenciales de la economía social y cooperativa

'Identidad cooperativa: puesta en valor de los elementos diferenciales de la Economía cooperativa y solidaria' fue el tema del XIV Congreso de la Red Universitaria Euro-Latinoamericana de Economía Social y Cooperativa (RULESCOOP), que se celebró em octubre de 2021 en la sede del Centro de ...

Amenazas sociales de la revolución digital

Los avances de las TIC y de Internet, unidos a los posteriores de la Robótica y la Inteligencia Artificial, han cambiado de tal modo la trayectoria vital de la Sociedad que tiene sentido citar la Revolución Digital como una característica de nuestra época. Estas tecnologías ...

Shifting paradigms

growth, finance, jobs, and inequality in the digital economy

Addressing the big questions about how technological change is transforming economies and societies. Rapid technological change -likely to accelerate as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic- is reshaping economies and how they grow. But change also causes disruption, creates winners and losers, and produces social ...

Restarting the future

how to fix the intangible economy

From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economy The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left people wondering what has happened ...

The political philosophy of AI

an introduction

Political issues people care about such as racism, climate change, and democracy take on new urgency and meaning in the light of technological developments such as AI. How can we talk about the politics of AI while moving beyond mere warnings and easy accusations? This ...

Manual de uso de los NFT

cómo crear, vender y comprar Non Fungible Tokens, los activos digitales del futuro

Cómo crearlos, venderlos o invertir en ellos Este práctico manual sirve de guía para todo aquel que quiera adentrarse en el uso de los NFT, un nuevo concepto de bien no fungible basado en tecnología blockchain que sirve para comercializar con seguridad todo tipo de ...

The digital silk road

China's quest to wire the world and win the future

Its vast infrastructure projects now extend from the ocean floor to outer space, and from Africa's megacities into rural America. China is wiring the world, and, in doing so, rewriting the global order. As things stand, the rest of the world still has a ...

How to stay smart in a smart world

why human intelligence still beats algorithms

An essential guide to navigating our data-driven world, from the renowned psychologist and author of Risk Savvy Is more data always a good thing? Do algorithms really make better decisions than humans? Can we stay in control in an increasingly automated world? Drawing on decades ...

Innovation in real places

strategies for prosperity in an unforgiving world

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of ...

Blockchain, Bitcoin y Ethereum desde cero

un aproximación sencilla y clara a la tecnología que revolucionará el mundo

¿Es Bitcoin el nuevo internet? ¿Estamos ante el inicio de la nueva era? Los bancos centrales lo temen, los estados no saben cómo prohibirlo o cómo cobrar sus impuestos con él. Aprende desde cero, sin un lenguaje técnico y de forma clara, cómo funcionan las ...

Conflictos y Blockchain

construcción de paz

El Estado se ha encontrado, durante siglos, en una posición de privilegio para mantener la paz y desarrollar el orden con normas que trasciendan las formas centralizadas que nos ofrece para resolver nuestros conflictos. Sin embargo el Estado se ha ido centralizando cada vez más ...

Blockchain, fintech and the Law

Blockchain, Fintech and the Law explores the exciting possibilities of new financial technologies, including, but not limited to the use of blockchain, and the regulatory and legal implications of Fintech from different perspectives. This volume will be of interest to legal experts, law students and ...

Retos jurídicos y económicos emergentes en la economía de plataformas

Esta obra analiza la problemática jurídica que para distintos sectores del ordenamiento presentan los nuevos modelos económicos surgidos en el ámbito de la economía de plataformas, así como su realidad económica. El estudio aporta una visión interdisciplinar que permite una mayor comprensión de este nuevo ...

Ecología y Ciencia Social

reflexiones ecologistas sobre la crisis de la sociedad industrial

El movimiento ecologista ha adquirido una enorme importancia en nuestros días, por la evidencia cada vez más clara de los gravísimos problemas ambientales que está creando el actual desarrollo de la civilización capitalista. Hacia esta toma de conciencia convergen diversas perspectivas, que pueden resumirse en ...

El hombre transparente

cómo el «mundo real» acabó convertido en Big Data

Nuestra época resulta fértil en mitos. La Gran Singularidad, el crecimiento exponencial, el narcisismo o la viralidad podrían ser algunos de los más relevantes. La escisión entre el mundo de las cosas y de las personas, entre la tecnología y la sociedad, resulta sólo aparente ...