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Capitalism Without Capital : The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Haskel, Jonathan; Westlake, Stian; is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economyEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, from tech firms and pharma companies to coffee shops and gyms, the ability to deploy assets that one can neither see nor touch is increasingly the main source of long-term success.But this is not just a familiar story of the so-called new economy. Capitalism without Capital shows that the growing importance of intangible assets has also played a role in some of the big economic changes of the last decade. The rise of intangible investment is, Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake argue, an underappreciated cause of phenomena from economic inequality to stagnating productivity.Haskel and Westlake bring together a decade of research on how to measure intangible investment and its impact on national accounts, showing the amount different countries invest in intangibles, how this has changed over time, and the latest t

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Author
Haskel, Jonathan; Westlake, Stian;
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9781400888320
Category
business
Subjects
Business, History, Management
Rating
4.2 / 5 (678 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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