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