Table of Contents
Preface ix
Introduction: What's Wrong with This Picture? 1
Chapter 1 Removing Humans from the Equation 13
Digital Industrialism 13
Mass Mass Mass 16
The Digital Marketplace: Winner Takes All 24
The Economy of Likes 30
The Big Data Play 39
Sharing Economics: Getting Humans Back "on the Books" 44
The Unemployment Solution 54
Chapter 2 The Growth Trap 68
Corporations Are Programs 68
The Platform Monopoly 82
Recoding the Corporation 93
The Steady-State Enterprise 97
Chapter 3 The Speed of Money 124
Coin of the Realm 124
Reprogramming Money-Bank Vaults to Blockchains 138
Money Is a Verb 151
Chapter 4 Investing Without Exiting 168
Finance Is Nothing Personal 168
Do Algorithms Dream of Digital Derivatives? 178
Investment Gamified: The Startup 184
Ventureless Capital: The Patience of Crowds 196
Fully Invested-Factors Beyond Capital 206
Chapter 5 Distributed 224
Digital Distributism 224
Renaissance Now? 232
Acknowledgments 241
Appendix 245
Notes 247
Selected Bibliography 263
Index 267
Community Action Guide 279