Network businesses and natural monopolies
Where cost structure or network effects make one supplier the efficient outcome, and what that does to pricing and politics.
7 books · 1 people behind it
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- The Master SwitchTim Wu, 2010
- Zero to OnePeter Thiel, Blake Masters, 2014
- Information RulesCarl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian, 1998
The people behind it 1
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
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Books 7
Thomas P. Hughes · 1983 · The classic history of electrification as a system business.
Carl Shapiro, Hal R. Varian · 1998 · Lock-in, switching costs and versioning; still the sharpest account of information economics.
Tim Wu · 2010 · The cycle by which open information industries close into monopolies.
Robert H. Bork · 1978 · The consumer-welfare argument that let network scale go unchallenged.
Jon Gertner · 2012 · Bell Labs, and what a regulated network monopoly could afford to fund.
T2 Zero to One
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters · 2014 · Monopoly as the goal rather than the pathology.
Balaji S. SrinivasanEric WeinsteinMohnish PabraiNat EliasonPatrick O'ShaughnessyAlfred LinAna FabregaAnna ChengBen HorowitzBrett AdcockCasey NeistatChris DixonCodie SanchezDustin MoskovitzElon MuskEric JorgensonGuy ProopsJames AltucherJoel ConnollyKeith RaboisLuis von AhnMarc AndreessenMatt MullenwegMax LevchinMichael WongNiki ScevakReid HoffmanRyan PetersonSam AltmanSatya NadellaSophie BakalarSteph SmithTom Bilyeu
Tim Wu · 2018 · The counter-case, and the Brandeisian revival.