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Is there any (succinct, easy-to-understand) research on the lifecycle/birth & death/power & influence of these entities? This seems a major point to be aware of

• rectang 8y ago
  What got me thinking about corporate evolution was Richard Dawkins, who applied concepts from evolutionary biology to non-biological spheres with "meme". You might consider his book "The Selfish Gene". This is a popular line of thought (try googling "corporation evolutionary biology", which gets you to pages like https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-biology-of-corporate-survival https://hbr.org/2016/01/the-biology-of-corporate-survival ), but it has a weakness: it's hard to be rigorous. In the field of evolutionary biology, experiments are hard to design and hypotheses are hard to falsify, so a lot of the writing is deeply infected by the author's prejudices. I'm sure there's something there, and I'm confident that whatever it is is more plausible than fragile conspiracy theories like the Illuminati. But exactly how non-biological entities compete and evolve is hard to say.
• stevenwoo 8y ago
  This may be relevant to your question. https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven-brill-inequality-poverty-tailspin https://www.vox.com/2018/6/28/17469080/american-dream-steven...