Coded Power
How to Fight Digital Despotism and Reclaim Our Data
$53.54
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2027
Summary
Freeing ourselves from the top-down control of tech oligarchs
Coded power is social control—power over other people’s relationships. This can be seen today in the top-down control over data exerted by tech oligarchs—billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. DOGE’s takeover of key government institutions early in the second Trump administration was a particularly blatant example of an attempt to exercise coded power by tapping into critical information systems o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691266657 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691266654 |
| Author: | Katharina Pistor, Co-Pierre Georg |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
Katharina Pistor
Co-Pierre Georg is professor of practice in financial technology at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and the director of the Frankfurt School Centre for Digital Economics.
Katharina Pistor teaches at Columbia Law School and is the codirector of Columbia’s Center for Political Economy. She is the author of The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality and The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It.
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