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James Bessen, an economist and technologist, serves as Executive Director of the Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University. He has also been a successful innovator and CEO of a software company. Bessen studies the major economic impacts of technology on society, writing academic papers, magazine articles, and books. His latest book, The New Goliaths (Yale 2022), argues that major firms’ investments in proprietary software systems have allowed them to increase their dominance of industries, slowing aggregate innovation and raising income inequality. Earlier work with Michael Meurer on patents identified the social costs of poorly defined property rights (see Patent Failure, Princeton 2008). Bessen’s work on automation (see Learning by Doing, Yale 2015), provides a distinct analysis of effects on employment, skills, and wage inequality. He has been widely cited in the press, by the US White House and Supreme Court, the European Parliament, and the Federal Trade Commission.

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The New Goliaths

How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries, Kill Innovation

By: James Bessen

Narrated by: Mack Sanderson

Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 11-22-22

Language: English

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