TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wu,Tim
TI  - The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity 
SN  - 9780593321249
AV  - HD9999.M782 .W82 2025
U1  - 338.7 23
PY  - 2025///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Multi-sided platform businesses
KW  - Artificial intelligence
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Technological unemployment
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Part I: Understanding Platform Power -- The Genius of the Ancient City Square -- Platformization -- The Golden Age of Tech Optimism -- From Enablement to Extraction-the Story of the Amazon Marketplace -- Scale as a Weapon -- The Great Harvest -- Part II: The Business of Herding -- A Long Slow Bet on Laziness -- Big data, knowing the future & controlling the future -- Artificial Intelligence and the Calculus of Human Dependence -- Platform Power Beyond Tech -- Part III: The Dangers of Centralized Economic Power -- The Risks of Centralized Economic Power -- Economic mania -- Some Solutions -- The Persistent Dream of the Self-Correcting Economy -- Artificail Intelligence and Crypto: Technological Answers to Economic Inequality -- Mere Redistribution -- Part IV: An Architecture of Equality -- Platforms and the Architecture of Equality -- Epilogue
N2  - "A concise yet 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"-- Provided by publisher
ER  -