The Platform Economy
By Ina O'Murchu
How a handful of platforms came to control who buys, who sells, and what everything is worth.
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Format
MP3
Length
1h 48m
Chapters
10 + extras
Narrator
AI Voice
Inside This Audiobook
What This Is Really About
The Platform Economy audiobook examines how platforms turn data into capital, users into labour, and algorithms into engines of control. It explores how digital platforms evolved from open networks into powerful monopolies that now dominate data, labour, and markets.
Nothing online is really free. If you are not paying, your data and your time are the price.
It examines the rise of network effects, algorithmic corporations, and the hidden workforce behind the world’s “free” services, cutting through the hype to show how power actually flows. The Platform Economy audiobook lays bare the real structures shaping the modern digital economy, and who they are built to serve.
Takeaways
What You'll Learn
- How platforms rose from open networks to powerful digital monopolies.
- How network effects lock in dominance and crush competition.
- How data became capital and users became the hidden workforce.
- How platforms now control workers, creators, and entire markets.
- How AI turns corporations into self-optimising algorithmic machines.
- How decentralised, tokenised models may reshape the future economy.
Track List
Chapters
10 chapters + intro, preface & conclusion
Total · 1h 48m
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 — The Rise of the Platform Firm
- 2 — Network Effects and the Logic of Scale
- 3 — Data as Capital, Humans as Input
- 4 — Monopolies Becoming Monopsonies
- 5 — The Collapse of Competitive Entry
- 6 — The Algorithmic Corporation
- 7 — Society in the Grip of Platforms
- 8 — The Future of Business Models
- 9 — The AI Age: Agents, Autonomy, and Economic Evolution
- 10 — Reclaiming the Digital Commons
- Conclusion
About the Author
Ina has worked at the intersection of Web3 and the early foundations of modern AI well before these domains captured public attention. Her research examined community dynamics, technological governance, and the structural forces behind emerging technologies. With her audiobooks, she makes these subjects easier to absorb, guiding listeners through complex ideas with a clear narrative designed for learning on the go.
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