The Age of Extraction
The Age of Extraction
How Digital Giants Seized Economic Power and Endanger Shared Prosperity
About This Book
The Extraction Era (2025) examines how major digital platforms transformed from value creators into value extractors, siphoning gains from users, vendors, and the broader marketplace. Wu demonstrates how relaxed antitrust oversight combined with data advantages and network dynamics enabled monopolistic control to spread from retail and entertainment into artificial intelligence. The book outlines reforms—stronger enforcement of competitive markets and utility-grade regulation—designed to redistribute innovation benefits and economic gains.
Who Should Read This?
- Regulators focused on competition enforcement and market oversight
- Technology professionals building products and launching companies
- Readers concerned with digital monopolies and economic fairness
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