James Bessen, "The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation" (Yale UP, 2022)
In\xa0The New Goliaths: How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation, and Undermine Regulation\xa0(Yale UP, 2022), James Bessen explores the idea of how software can actually slow innovation. He makes the case that big companies in one industry after another have built "complex" software systems for managing their sales, marketing, operations and product offerings that are essentially moats against competitors. This mastery of software by major corporations, he argues, helps explain the "myth of disruptive innovation", rising economic concentration, increasing inequality and slowing innovation.\nJames Bessen, an economist and technologist, serves as Executive Director of the\xa0Technology & Policy Research Initiative\xa0at Boston University School of Law. He has also been a successful innovator and CEO of a software company. His profile in the New York Times is\xa0here.\nBernardo Batiz-Lazo\xa0is currently straddling between Newcastle and Mexico City. You can find him on twitter on issues related to business history of banking, fintech, payments and other musings. Not always in that order. @BatizLazo\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law