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Monopolized : life in the age of corporate power /

"David Dayen explains how a narrow interpretation of the Sherman Act four decades ago spawned an age of unprecedented deregulation and corporate dominance. Dayen offers a riveting account of what it means to live in this period--and how we might resist this corporate hegemony."--Dust jacke...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dayen, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : The New Press, 2020.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Monopolies are why people keep contracting deep vein thrombosis on long-haul flights
  • Monopolies are why a farmer's daughter is crying behind the desk of a best western
  • Monopolies are why hundreds of journalists became filmmakers, then back to writers, then unemployed
  • Monopolies are why students sit in Starbucks parking lots at night to do their homework
  • Monopolies are why teamsters stormed a podium to tell one another about their dead friends and relatives
  • Monopolies among banks are why there are monopolies among every other economic sector
  • Monopolies are why America can't build or run a single weapons system without assistance from China
  • Monopolies are why a small business owner and his girlfriend had to get permission from Amazon to live together
  • Monopolies are why hospitals can give patients prosthetic limbs and artificial hearts but not salt and water in a bag
  • Monopolies are why a woman found her own home listed for rent on zillow
  • Monopolies are why a family has only seen the top of their loved ones' head for the past two years
  • Monopolies are why I traveled to Chicago and Tel Aviv to learn how to stop.