The curse of bigness : antitrust in the new Gilded Age / Tim Wu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wu, Tim, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antitrust law--United States.

Antitrust law.

Income distribution.

History.

Politics and government.

Antitrust investigations.

United States.

Antitrust investigations--United States--History.

United States--Economic conditions--21st century.

Economic conditions.

United States--Politics and government--21st century.

Income distribution--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages) : illustration, map

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia Global Reports, [2018]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

From the man who coined the term "net neutrality," author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants , comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future. We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms -- big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the "curse of bigness" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it has spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening democracy itself. History suggests that tolerance of inequality and failing to control excessive corporate power may prompt the rise of populism, nationalism, extremist politicians, and fascist regimes. In short, as Wu warns, we are in grave danger of repeating the signature errors of the twentieth century. In The Curse of Bigness , Columbia professor Tim Wu tells of how figures like Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt first confronted the democratic threats posed by the great trusts of the Gilded Age--but the lessons of the Progressive Era were forgotten in the last 40 years. He calls for recovering the lost tenets of the trustbusting age as part of a broader revival of American progressive ideas as we confront the fallout of persistent and extreme economic inequality.

Contents:

The monopolization movement

The right to live, and not merely to exist

The Trustbuster

Peak antitrust and the Chicago School

The last of the big cases

Chicago triumphant

The rise of the tech trusts

A neo-Brandeisian agenda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780999745472

0999745476

Publisher Number:

99986549756

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