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Vol 9 No 1 Spring 2025

Technofeudalism Is Just Capitalism

The concept of technofeudalism conjures pre-theoretical images of a Mad Max–type world in which feudal lords control the labor capacities of serfs through a combination of direct coercion and control over some extremely scarce productive asset. Economists Cédric Durand and Yanis Varoufakis broach tamer versions of this idea. Their story goes something like this. The […]

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