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Simon Anderson of University of Virginia reviews "The Economics of Platforms: Concepts and Strategy" by Paul Belleflamme and Martin Peitz. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: "Textbook for advanced undergraduate and master's students in economics examines firms that manage the interactions between their users, discussing conceptual issues regarding platforms and the strategic decisions of a monopoly platform." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISBN: 9781863959964 Across the world economy, the Big Four accounting and auditing firms of Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) generate revenues of more than US$100 billion each year and employ almost one million staff. Ostensibly, this Act was supposed to restrict the range of non-audit management advice and financial systems design that the Big Four could sell to their audit clients. Despite the acceptance of penalties and the settlement of lawsuits, in 2017 the Big Four still audited 100 percent of the 457 biggest global corporations, for which audit information is available, in the I Fortune i 500 list ([1]). [Extracted from the article]

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