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Book

The hidden history of monopolies : how big business destroyed the American dream

Call Number

  • 338.82 H3338 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Oakland, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2020.

Physical Description

xiii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Summary

"The monopolistic power of companies like Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, and Google distorts and corrupts the American economy-but Thom Hartmann, America's #1 progressive radio host, shows we've broken the control of behemoths like these before, and we can do it again"--

Contents

  • Machine generated contents note: Monopoly Kills: Competition, Creativity, and Americans
  • America Was Founded on Resistance to Monopoly
  • Birthed in the Fight Against Monopoly
  • The Founders Challenge Monopoly
  • Madison's Vision: Government to Fight Factions
  • The Founders on Patents and Copyrights
  • The Monopolists Rise Up
  • Progressives Fight Back
  • Conservatives and Modern Monopolies vs. the Middle Class
  • Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism
  • Monopoly and Fascism in America Today
  • Where Did America's Middle Class Come From?
  • Where Did America's Middle Class Go?
  • How Reaganomics Killed the Jetsons
  • Reaganomics Ensured American Leisure for the Few, Not the Many
  • More Unequal than Rome
  • How the Monopolists Stole the US Government
  • Government as a Monopoly?
  • Commons vs. Private
  • Libertarians Object
  • The New Feudalism
  • From Route 66 to Anytown, USA
  • The Borking of America
  • The Fortunes Bork Made
  • Monopoly Is Anti-business
  • Living Monopoly Today and in Praise of Inefficiency
  • Monopoly in Milk: The End of a Family Dairy Farm
  • Big Ag Mergers
  • Monopoly in Pharma: Big Private Profits from Publicly Granted Patents
  • Just Three Companies
  • Hospital Consolidation Kills
  • Monopoly in Media: How Big Money Controls the Stories We Tell
  • The Early Days of Fox: Losing Money to Gain Political Power
  • Unbundling Cable, Phones, and TV
  • Turning Financial Power into Political Power
  • The Racial Wealth Monopoly
  • Monopolies over Labor
  • Cheap Labor, and Getting Cheaper
  • Less for Labor Means More for CEOs
  • Solution: Democracy's Immune System
  • Solution: Replace the ``Consumer Welfare`` Framework
  • Solution: Break Up the Internet Giants
  • Solution: Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty
  • Solution: Ban Preemption Laws Written by Corporations
  • The Core Solution: Competition.

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