In this paper we investigate the ways in which new forms of organization enabled by digital technologies such as crowdsourcing and digital marketplaces are allowing firms to circumvent and defy traditional knowledge constraints. This is part of the broader question of when and why these forms of...

My essay, in a time of (political) economic crisis, re-examines the fate of the constitutive oxymoron that is political economy from Montchrétien through neoliberalism. Its hero is Adam Smith, who at the end of Book I of Wealth of Nations warns of the destructive consequences of...