Rulers

Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor in Economics and Head of Research at the University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. She is also a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina's national research council, and associate researcher at COSTECH lab, Université de Technologie de Compiègne. She is the author of Capitalism, Power and Innovation: Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism Uncovered (Routledge), which recently won the EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize Competition, and The Digital Innovation Race: Conceptualizing the Emerging New World Order (Palgrave), the latter co-authored with B.A.K. Lundvall.

Cecilia Rikap is one of the most interesting and energetic researchers on AI, and The Rulers is a magnificent, devastating book. Rather than provide character studies of rich men, Rikap advances the Big Tech argument with a trove of insider interviews and data and compelling heterodox analysis that demonstrates how a few companies are subjugating politics and academic knowledge. The Cloud is engulfing democracy.