u/tafaddal - originally from r/GenZhou
People’s republic of Walmart. I’ve read it and do recommend. Mainly goes into the question why it is inevitable when it comes to scaling. Everyone does it

Description of the book for those who don’t want to click the link:

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations

For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us?

An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

u/Redish_VP - originally from r/GenZhou
Some literature I’ve been using in my researchs:

Towards a New Socialism - Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell
Classical Econophysics - Paul Cockshott & Allin Cottrell

Laws of Chaos: A probabilistic Approach to Political Economy - Emmanuel Farjoun & Moshé Machover

Enterprises, Industry and Innovation in People’s Republic of China: Questioning Socialism from Deng to the Trade and Tech War - Alberto Gabriele
Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century - Alberto Gabriele & Elias Jabbour

Brain of the Firm - Stafford Beer

Cybernetics - Elena Veduta

How not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet - Benjamin Peters

The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the world’s biggest corporations are laying the foundation for Socialism - Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski & others.

Cybernetics: From past to future - Dmitry A. Novikov

(Article) Big Data, Platform Economy and Market Competition - Binbin Wang & Xiaoyan Li