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The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
Contributor(s): Wu, Tim (Author)

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ISBN: 0999745468     ISBN-13: 9780999745465
Publisher: Columbia Global Reports
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Corporate Governance
- Business & Economics | Corporate & Business History - General
- Law | Antitrust
Dewey: 343.072
LCCN: 2018949786
Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 7.4" L (0.40 lbs) 154 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 09/24/2018
 
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Publisher Description:
From the man who coined the term net neutrality, 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, Tim Wu, special assistant to President Biden for technology and competition policy, 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Wu, Tim: - Tim Wu is a policy advocate, a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality." He worked on competition policy in the Obama White House and the Federal Trade Commission, served as senior enforcement counsel at the New York Office of the Attorney General, and worked at the Supreme Court for Justice Stephen Breyer. His previous books are The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires and The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside our Heads.
 
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