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In this podcast episode of the Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro and Fabian Stephany invite Vili Lehdonvirta to present his latest book, Cloud Empires, where he explains how Silicon Valley technologists end up creating digital forms of the very institutions that they were trying to render obsolete.

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