Overview
- Discusses challenges of digitalization for economic policy
- Highlights the emergence of digital innovations such as digital currencies and sharing economies
- Addresses competition, antitrust, and labor market policy
Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)
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This book addresses how digital technology is challenging the principles of the market economy and the consequences for economic policy.
Applying the approach of the Freiburg School as a heuristic perspective, the study examines the concrete effects of digital technology on the price system and monetary policy, the openness of markets, the role of private property, and labour markets.
It highlights the emergence of digital innovations such as digital currencies, digital goods, artificial intelligence, digital platforms and the sharing economy and discusses the challenges these innovations pose for economic governance and the development of adequate economic policy instruments.
This comprehensive overview provides a basic understanding of the scope of the digital transformation and addresses a wide scale of important aspects of e.g. competition and trade policy, the impact of robotisation on labour market policy, and how economic policy must incorporate social aspects.
The book appeals to scholars and students of economics, public management professionals, and anyone interested in the challenges of digitalisation in the context of economic policy.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Outline
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An Order Challenged
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic Policy in the Digital Age
Book Subtitle: How Technology is Challenging the Principles of the Market Economy
Authors: Jörg J. Dötsch
Series Title: Contributions to Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53047-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53046-3Published: 14 May 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53049-4Published: 15 May 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53047-0Published: 13 May 2024
Series ISSN: 1431-1933
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7178
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 207
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic Policy, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, Law and Economics, Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics