Last week I attended a two-day
DECODE Symposium in Barcelona on digital capitalism. It was an interesting and
informative conference, with speakers giving perspectives from Europe, Asia,
North America and South America. One somewhat predictable theme of comments
from many Europeans was their concern that Europe, or their ‘own’ country, had
a weak position in modern developments. They seemed to be more worried about US
and Chinese competition than about how imperialism channels technical progress
into an oppressive system of exploitation. For those interested in this topic,
I would recommend taking a look at the readings listed on the DECODE website
here. Over the next week or so, videos and presentation material from the
Symposium should be available on the same site.
My talk at the Symposium was on
the subject of ‘Big Tech and Global Finance’, the slides of which are reproduced
below:
Note: the table on page 9 was corrected on 19 November to give the correct years, 2015-2017
Tony Norfield, 22 October 2018
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