The power of today’s tech giants has prompted calls for changes in antitrust law and policy which, for decades, has been exceedingly permissive in merger enforcement and in constraining dominant firm conduct. Economically, the fear is that the largest digital platforms are so dominant and its...

Die Menschheit steht am Scheideweg, sagt die Harvard-Ökonomin Shoshana Zuboff. Bekommt die Politik die wachsende Macht der High-Tech-Giganten in den Griff? Oder überlassen wir uns der verborgenen Logik des Überwachungskapitalismus? Wie reagieren wir auf die neuen Methoden der...

Das Buch nimmt die Zukunft vorweg. Es beschreibt den genauen Weg unserer Gesellschaft in die Digitale Welt - in die Smarte Gesellschaft. Unsichtbares wird nun sichtbar: Erzählt wird, wie die Smartphones und Apps zu neuen Partnern in allen Lebenslagen werden konnten. Es werden die kalifornischen...

Part I. Theoretical Outline -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Digital Transformation as a starting point -- Chapter 3. The approach of the Freiburg School and why it is particularly useful now -- Part II. An Order Challenger -- Chapter 4. A functioning price system -- Chapter 5....

Nowadays, economy and society in the age of information base on results of production chain (information-knowledge-acquaintance), the motor of processes is handling structured knowledge and communication. Quantifying and measuring of differences of the information society’s different parts...

The purpose of this article is to contribute for the debate about the construction of governance spaces which guarantee the continuity of the regional development public policies, thus articulating actors and optimizing strategic projects in order to improve regional competitiveness ans...