Problematizing labour -- Problematizing information -- Labour productivity -- Babbage and the birth of digital technology -- From machines to the universal machine -- Political economy : value and labour -- The probabilistic approach to economic variables -- The statistical mechanics of money --...

"From the French origin of Coca Cola to McDonald's sponsorship of the 2015 Milan Expo, the book presents the first comparative history of these multinational corporations in two Western European countries, addressing some compelling questions: to what extent our increasingly globalized world is...