TY - JOUR

T1 - Planetary carambolage

T2 - The evolutionary political economy of technology, nature and work

AU - Gruszka, Katarzyna

AU - Scholz-Wäckerle, Manuel

AU - Aigner, Ernest

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2020. corrected publication 2020.

PY - 2020/11/1

Y1 - 2020/11/1

N2 - The following editorial introduces the special issue (SI) on “Work, Environment and Planetary-scale Computation in Political-Economic Evolution”. Here, however, we go beyond an outline of what each contribution to the SI addresses, and attempt to draw a more pronounced shared embedding of the arguments that have come to the fore. The original idea of this SI was to synthesize a range of contemporary global political-economic challenges, i.e. (1) technology (esp. digital transformation), (2) nature (esp. ecological crisis) and (3) work (esp. precarization via the evolving platform economy). The main argument developed in this editorial reflection focuses on the common ground and origin of those processes found in the complex evolution of capitalist development. We frame the latter by assigning it a new term, i.e. “planetary carambolage”.

AB - The following editorial introduces the special issue (SI) on “Work, Environment and Planetary-scale Computation in Political-Economic Evolution”. Here, however, we go beyond an outline of what each contribution to the SI addresses, and attempt to draw a more pronounced shared embedding of the arguments that have come to the fore. The original idea of this SI was to synthesize a range of contemporary global political-economic challenges, i.e. (1) technology (esp. digital transformation), (2) nature (esp. ecological crisis) and (3) work (esp. precarization via the evolving platform economy). The main argument developed in this editorial reflection focuses on the common ground and origin of those processes found in the complex evolution of capitalist development. We frame the latter by assigning it a new term, i.e. “planetary carambolage”.

KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics

KW - B51

KW - B52

KW - Capitalist development

KW - Complexity

KW - Digital transformation

KW - Ecological crisis

KW - Evolution

KW - J81

KW - O33

KW - P11

KW - P16

KW - P18

KW - Platform work

KW - Political economy

KW - Q57

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138341798&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/s43253-020-00030-3

DO - 10.1007/s43253-020-00030-3

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 1

SP - 273

EP - 293

JO - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy

JF - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy

SN - 2662-6144

IS - 3

ER -