Big tech and platform-enabled multinational corporate capital(ism): the socialisation of capital, and the private appropriation of social value
借鉴Keith Cowling和Stephen Hymer的理论，结合古典经济学思想，分析平台赋能的大型科技公司、独角兽和共享经济的兴起，并预测企业和资本主义的未来走向。
Abstract I explore the relationship between theory and prediction in political economy and organisational economics, employing the works of Keith Cowling and Stephen Hymer as case examples of prediction-aiding good theory. I develop the insights of the two scholars by leveraging key ideas from classical economics and applying the result to the platform-enabled, market-assisted organisational economy. Based on that I suggest that the emergence and rise of platform-enabled Big Tech, unicorns and the ‘sharing economy’ are both aligned with and partly predictable. I go on to hazard some further predictions about the future of the corporation and capitalism and discuss research opportunities.