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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is a 2019 non-fiction book by Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls "surveillance capitalism".
Surveillance capitalism is a concept in political economics which denotes the widespread collection and commodification of personal data by corporations. This phenomenon is distinct from government surveillance, although the two can be mutually reinforcing.
Shoshana Zuboff (born November 18, 1951) [2] is an American author, professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar.. Zuboff is the author of the books In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power and The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism, co-authored with James Maxmin.
John Vaillant (born 1962) is an American Canadian writer and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside. He has written both non-fiction and fiction books.
John Mackey is the founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market (NYS: WFM) , which has been a remarkable growth story since its start in 1980.Whole Foods started as a small store in Austin, Texas, and ...
The company publishes mostly non-mainstream non-fiction books about politics and current affairs, both American and international. It has published several books by Nobel Prize-winning authors, including Muhammad Yunus 's Banker to the Poor and Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo 's two books Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times .
In his book Economics and the Public Purpose (1973) he proposed the extension of the planning system used in the industrial core of the economy to the wider market economy. He argued for a new socialism, with more steeply progressive taxes, public housing , medical care and transportation , public support of the arts and the conversion of some ...
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