Books like Techno-Feudalism by Yanis Varoufakis

Digital Minimalism shows how reducing everyday technology use can improve well‑being, offering a practical strategy to reclaim free time and focus on meaningful activities.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

Yochai Benkler’s *The Wealth of Networks* examines how the Internet’s shift to social production reshapes markets, freedom, culture, and political discourse, while warning that entrenched industrial interests threaten these gains.

Platform Capitalism explains how tech giants like Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Uber, and Airbnb have reshaped the economy by becoming multi‑sided platforms that provide infrastructure for others to build on, ushering in a new era of capitalist competition.

Techno-Nationalism and Techno-Globalism: Conflict and Cooperation is a broad-ranging study of the technological competitiveness of nations. It examines the origins of trade and public policy conflict in the United States, Japan, France, and Germany; the friction between countries caused by shifts in competitiveness; the role of trade policy in both causing and attempting to resolve these frictions; and the scope for new initiatives aimed at strengthening international cooperation. The authors argue that the margin of the U.S. technology lead has been narrowing since the 1960s, caused in part by the rise of Japanese industry in a variety of high-tech industries, and in part by the rapid circulation of information and diffusion of technology. They show how changes in technical competitiveness have created new sources of economic conflict between nations. Because governments increasingly believe that long-term wealth creation depends on superior technical skills, they are inclined to provide direct or indirect assistance to potential technological winners. This raises the risk of trade and subsidy wars. Technology now spreads quickly, reducing the time it used to take for competitors to catch up. The authors explain that to create adequate return on the considerable investment that high tech requires, firms must have ready access to foreign markets through trade and through direct investment. In addition to formal restrictions on trade and investment, structural impediments have become a bigger problem. These arise from policy sanctioned by exclusionary links among and between producers, distributors, and financiers.