{"title":"Books by Tim Wu","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781838950873","title":"The Curse of Bigness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Timely \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eimportant\u003c\/b\u003e.' -- Joseph E. Stiglitz \u003cbr\u003e'Tim Wu helps shape an \u003cb\u003eurgent \u003c\/b\u003enew global conversation.' -- Shoshana Zuboff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe're three decades into a global experiment: what happens when the major nations of the world weaken their control on the size and power of corporate giants and allow unrestricted expansion?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Curse of Bigness,\u003c\/i\u003e Tim Wu exposes the threats monopolies pose to economic stability and social freedom around the world. Aided by the globalization of commerce and finance, in recent years we have seen takeovers galore that make a mockery of the ideals of competition and economic freedom. Such is the 'curse of bigness': stifled entrepreneurship, stalled productivity, dominant tech giants like Facebook and Google, and fewer choices for consumers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUrgent and persuasive, this bold manifesto argues that we need to rediscover the anti-monopoly traditions that brought great peace and prosperity in the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43205688066226,"sku":"9781838950873","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57688188617077,"sku":"9781838950828","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781838950873_95206de7-a620-402e-ae3a-642fac0466b1.jpg?v=1792686103"},{"product_id":"9781782394853","title":"The Attention Merchants","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAttention merchant: \u003c\/b\u003ean industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers.\u003cbr\u003eIn nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the 'attention merchants', contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions but the end result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age to our present age of radically individualized choices, the business model of 'attention merchants' has always been the same. He describes the revolts that have risen against these relentless attempts to influence our consumption, from the remote control to FDA regulations to Apple's ad-blocking OS. But he makes clear that attention merchants grow ever-new heads, and their means of harvesting our attention have given rise to the defining industries of our time, changing our nature - cognitive, social, and otherwise - in ways unimaginable even a generation ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305026630005,"sku":"9781782394853","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781782394853_690f3514-7fcf-4be9-8cff-d941248dfc30.jpg?v=1786025631"},{"product_id":"9781847927118","title":"The Age of Extraction","description":"The pre-eminent exponent of anti-monopoly law explains why we have no option but to break Big Tech’s monopolies, and that doing so would unleash innovation and growth.   ‘Wu deftly breaks down one of the greatest challenges of our age - the unaccountable power of tech platforms - into such digestible pieces that the solutions for what to do become dead obvious’ KAREN HAO, author of Empire of AI'Tim Wu is a titan . . . a must-read' Financial TimesToday’s dominant tech platforms – the places where we exchange information and buy things online – could be the most powerful engines of prosperity ever invented. Instead, they are the most effective instruments of wealth extraction ever created and a grave threat to our societies.   Here the pre-eminent exponent of anti-monopoly law Tim Wu, who coined the phrase ‘net neutrality’, explains why breaking Big Tech’s monopolies would unleash innovation and growth and is essential if we are to avoid further social division. In their place he sets out the five key ways in which future platforms should be managed to harness the extraordinary potential of these essential technologies and to help build the balanced economies we so badly need.   ‘Tim Wu's readable, passionate call is for a fairer economy where the benefits of AI can be for all of us’ DARON ACEMOGLU, co-author of Why Nations Fail‘Wu’s proposed solutions for fixing the internet provide hope, not least because of how simple they are’ New Statesman‘Remarkably astute and timely … a vital book’ LINA KHAN, Former Chair of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission'Cuts to the core' CORY DOCTOROW, author of Enshittification*A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2025*","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685875917173,"sku":"9781529967319","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56368226959733,"sku":"9781847927118","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781529967319_fe8533f0-8260-47f0-b076-f6a61574b544.jpg?v=1792599098"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-tim-wu.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}