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Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Journalist Barry C. Lynn paints an alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every sector of the American economy.
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple—once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom—have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Barry C. Lynn, one of America's preeminent thinkers, provides the clearest statement yet on the nature and magnitude of the political and economic dangers posed by America's new monopolies in Liberty from All Masters. Americans are obsessed with liberty, mad about liberty. On any day, we can tune into arguments about how much liberty we need to buy a gun or get an abortion, to marry who we want or adopt the gender we feel. We argue endlessly about...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Something’s not right. No matter how hard you work, life seems to only get harder. When your expenses keep going up but your income stays flat, when you’re price-gouged buying medicine for your child’s life-threatening allergy, when you live in a hyped-up state of fear and anxiety, monopoly power is playing a key role. In Monopolies Suck, antitrust expert and director at the Open Markets Institute, Sally Hubbard, shows us the seven ways big...
Author
Series
History of American life volume 9
Publisher
The Macmillan company
Pub. Date
1936
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party--while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy"--
17) Goliath
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics, resulting in the emergence of populism and authoritarianism, the fall of the Democratic Party--while also providing the steps needed to create a new democracy"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In 2017, Lina Khan published a paper that accused Amazon of being a monopoly, having grown so large, and embedded in so many industries, it was akin to a modern-day Standard Oil. Unlike Rockefeller's empire, however, Bezos's company had grown voraciously without much scrutiny. In fact, for over twenty years, Amazon had emerged as a Wall Street darling and its "customer obsession" approach made it indelibly attractive to consumers across the globe....