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Long Snake Moan: How Capitalism’s Productivity Failure Is Driving Debt and Speculation
New research suggests the digital economy isn't providing many solutions to capitalism's productivity crisis. Increasingly, large companies are turning to subscriptions and data for profit, hoarding what they can along the way.