BOOKS: EZRACHI Ariel et STUCKE Maurice E., Harvard University Press, 2016, 368 p.

Virtual Competition. The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-driven Economy, Ariel EZRACHI, Maurice E. STUCKE

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In the age of "all on-line shopping", Professors Ezrachi (Oxford) and Stucke (Tennessee) explore the three main dangers they see in using increasingly sophisticated algorithms to adjust prices and track consumer preferences: "computer colluding", "behavioral discrimination" and "frenemy relationship" between service platforms and application developers. A book that is sure to make us think twice before our next Internet purchase click.

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  • University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Stéphane Rodrigues, Virtual Competition. The Promise and Perils of the Algorithm-driven Economy, Ariel EZRACHI, Maurice E. STUCKE, February 2017, Concurrences N° 1-2017, Art. N° 83495, pp. 261

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