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acquisitions,
78

Acxiom,
32
,
40
–41

advertising,
20
–21.
See also
marketing

big data and,
42

branding and,
20
,
35
–37

“likes” economy and,
35
–37

AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust,
210

Agency.com,
196

Airbnb,
98
–99,
213
,
219
,
222

destructive destruction and,
100

peer-to-peer commerce enabled by,
45
,
46

algorithmic trading,
179
–84

Alphabet,
78

Amazon,
50
,
76
,
83
,
93
,
219
,
229

destructive destruction and,
100

highly centralized sales platform of,
29

as platform monopoly,
87
–90

Amazon Associates,
89

Amazon Mechanical Turk,
49n
,
50
,
90
,
214
,
222

Amazon Prime,
90

American Revolution,
71
–72,
75

Ameritrade,
177
,
178

amplification,
70
,
73

Amsted Industries,
117

Anderson, Chris,
26
,
33

Andreessen, Marc,
191
–92

angel investors,
187
,
188

AngelList,
201

Aoki, Steve,
36

Apple,
37
,
76
,
80
,
83
,
141
,
218

Ariel,
209
–10

aristocracy,
17
–18,
22
,
70
,
128
–29,
133
,
230

Aristotle,
69

artificial intelligence,
90
–91

artisanal economy,
16
–18,
21
,
22
,
226
,
233
–34

arts, funding of,
236

Atkinson, Anthony B.,
65

austerity,
136
–37

auto attendants,
14

Bandcamp,
29
–30

Barber, Brad,
177

Barnes & Noble,
83
,
87

barter,
127

barter exchanges,
159

Basecamp,
59
–60

BASF,
107

Battle-Bro,
121

Bauwens, Michael,
221

bazaars,
16
–18

money and,
127

obsolescence of, caused by corporations,
70
–71

Bell, Daniel,
53

Belloc, Hilaire,
229

benefit corporations,
119

Ben & Jerry’s,
80
,
205

Benna, Ted,
171

BerkShare,
154
–55

Best Buy,
90

Bezos, Jeff,
90
,
92
–93

Biewald, Lukas,
49
–50

big data,
39
–44

data point collection and comparisons of,
41
–42

game changing product invention reduced by reliance on,
43

predicting future choices, as means of,
41
,
42
–43

reduction in spontaneity of customers and,
43

social graphs and,
40

suspicion of, as increasing value of data already being sold,
43
–44

traditional market research, distinguished,
41

Big Shift,
76

biopiracy,
218

biotech crash of 1987,
6

Bitcoin,
143
–49,
150
–51,
152
,
219
,
222

BitTorrent,
142
–43,
219

Blackboard,
95
–96

Blackstone Group,
115

black swans,
183

blockchain,
144
–51,
222

Bitcoin,
144
,
145
,
146
,
147
,
149
,
222

decentralized autonomous corporations (DACs) and,
149
–50

Blogger,
8
,
31

Bloomberg,
182

Bodie, Zvie,
174

Borders,
83
,
87

bot programs,
37

bounded investing,
210
–15

Bovino, Beth Ann,
81
–82

Brand, Russell,
36

branding,
20

social, and “likes” economy,
35
–37

Branson, Richard,
121

Brin, Sergey,
92
–93

Bristol Pounds,
156

British East India Company,
71
–72

Brixton Pounds,
156

brokered barter system,
127

Brynjolfsson, Erik,
23
,
53

Buffett, Warren,
168
,
209

burn rate,
190

Bush, Jeb,
227
–28

Calacanis, Jason,
201

Calvert,
209
–10

Campbell Soup Company,
119

capital.
See
money

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
(Piketty),
131

capitalism,
124
–25

captology,
91

Caring Relationship Tickets (Fureai Kippu),
162

Case, Steve,
186

central currency system,
124
–26,
128
–39

abolishing of local moneys in favor of,
128
–29

alternatives to,
154
–67

austerity and,
136
–37

complementary systems,
164
–65

crash of 2007 and,
133
–34

creation of, by lending it into existence,
129
–30

credit as product,
132
–33

debasements, taxation through,
130

Federal Reserve policies and,
137
–38

growth and,
126
,
129
–31,
133
–36

growth trap and,
133
–34

interest on,
129
–31

Mill’s stationary state and,
135
–36

operating system nature of,
125
–26

outlawing of local currencies and replacement with,
128
–29

putting more into circulation, through government taking on debt and paying workers,
137
–38

stimulative policies and,
136
,
137

taxation through debasement of,
129

Charles Schwab,
176

chartered monopolies,
18
,
56
,
70
,
101
,
125
,
131

Chen, Perry,
198

Chesterton, G. K.,
229

Circuit City,
90

Citizens United
case,
72

Claritas,
32

click workers,
50

climate change,
135
,
227
–28,
237

coin of the realm,
128
–29

collaboration as corporate strategy,
106
–7

colonialism,
71
–72

commons,
215
–23

co-owned networks and,
220
–23

history of,
215
–16

projects inspired by,
217
–18

successful, elements of,
216
–17

tragedy of,
215
–16

worker-owned collectives and,
219
–20

competencies, of corporations,
79
–80

Connect+Develop,
107

Consumer Electronics Show,
19

Consumer Reports,
33

contracting with small and medium-sized enterprises,
112

cooperative currencies,
160
–65

favor banks,
161

LETS (Local Exchange Trading System),
163
–65

time dollar systems,
161
–63

co-owned networks,
220
–23

corporations,
68
–82

acquisition of startups, growth through,
78

amplifying effect of,
70
,
73

Big Shift and,
76

cash holdings of,
76
,
77
–78

competency of,
79
–80

cost reduction, growth through,
79
–80

decentralized autonomous corporations (DACs),
149
–50

Deloitte’s study of return on assets (ROA) of,
76
–77

distributive alternative to platform monopolies,
93
–97

evaluation of,
69
–74

extractive nature of,
71
–72,
73
,
74
,
75
,
80
–82

growth targets, meeting,
68
–69

income inequality and,
81
–82

limits to corporate model,
75
–76,
80
–82

managerial and financial methods to deliver growth by,
77
–79

monopolies (
See
monopolies)

obsolescence created by,
70
–71,
73

offshoring and,
78
–79

personhood of,
72
,
73
–74,
90
,
91

recoding of,
93
–97,
125
–26

repatriation and,
80

retrieval of values of empire and,
71
–72,
73

as steady-state enterprises,
97
–123

Costco,
74

cost reduction, and corporate growth,
79
–80

Couchsurfing.com,
46

crashes

of 1929,
99

of 2007,
133
–34

biotech crash, of 1987,
6

flash crash,
180

Creative Commons,
215

creative destruction,
83
–87

credit,
132
–33

credit-card companies,
143
–44

crowdfunding,
38
–39,
198
–201

crowdsharing apps,
45
–49

crowdsourcing platforms,
49
–50

Crusades,
16

Cumbrian Pounds,
156

Curitiba, Brazil modified LETS program,
164
–65

Daly, Herman,
184

data

big,
39
–44

getting paid for our own,
44
–45

“likes” economy and,
32
,
34
–36

in pre-digital era,
40

Datalogix,
32

da Vinci, Leonardo,
236

debt,
152
–54

decentralized autonomous corporations (DACs),
149
–50

deflation,
169

Dell,
115
–16

Dell, Michael,
115
–16

Deloitte Center for the Edge,
76
–77

destructive destruction,
100

Detroit Dollars,
156

digital distributism,
224
–39

artisanal era mechanisms and values retrieved by,
233
–34

developing distributive businesses,
237
–38

digital industrialism compared,
226

digital technology and,
230
–31

historical ideals of distributism,
228
–30

leftism, distinguished,
231

Pope Francis’s encyclical espousing distributed approach to land, labor and capital,
227
–28

Renaissance era values, rebirth of,
235
–37

subsidiarity and,
231
–32

sustainable prosperity as goal of,
226
–27

digital economy,
7
–11

big data and,
39
–44

destabilizing form of digitally accelerated capitalism, creation of,
9
–10

digital marketplace, development of,
24
–30

digital transaction networks and,
140
–51

disproportionate relationship between capital and value in,
9

distributism and,
224
–39

externalizing cost of replacing employees in,
14
–15

industrialism and,
13
–16,
23
–24,
44
,
53
–54,
93
,
101
–2,
201
,
214
,
226

industrial society, distinguished,
11

“likes” and similar metrics, economy of,
30
–39

platform monopolies and,
82
–93,
101

digital industrialism,
13
–16,
23
–24,
101
–2,
201

digital distributism compared,
226

diminishing returns of,
93

externalizing costs and,
14
–15

growth agenda and,
14
–15,
23
–24

human data as commodity under,
44

income disparity and,
53
–54

labor and land pushed to unbound extremes by,
214

“likes” economy and,
33

reducing bottom line as means of creating illusion of growth and,
14