TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moore,Martin
AU  - Tambini,Damian
TI  - Regulating Big Tech: policy responses to digital dominance 
SN  - 9780197616093
AV  - HC79.H53 MOO
U1  - 338.4/76205 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - High technology industries
KW  - Government policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "The market size and strength of the major digital platform companies has invited international concern about how such firms should best be regulated to serve the interests of wider society, with a particular emphasis on the need for new anti-trust legislation. Using a normative innovation systems approach, this paper investigates how current anti-trust models may insufficiently address the value-extracting features of existing data-intensive and platform-oriented industry behaviour and business models. To do so, we employ the concept of economic rents to investigate how digital platforms create and extract value. Two forms of rent are elaborated: 'network monopoly rents' and 'algorithmic rents.' By identifying such rents more precisely, policymakers and researchers can better direct regulatory investigations, as well as broader industrial and innovation policy approaches, to shape the features of platform-driven digital markets"--
ER  -