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The Hidden History of Monopolies : How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream /
"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation."'from the foreword by Ralph Nader /> />American monopolies dominate, control, and consume most of the energy of our entire economic system; they function the sam...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oakland :
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated,
2020.
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| Colección: | The hidden history series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Cancer and Monopoly
- Monopoly Kills: Competition, Creativity, and Americans
- Part One: 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
- Part Two: 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
- Part Three: 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
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Z
- About the Author