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...
| Main Author: | Dayen, David (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
The New Press,
2020.
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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 them.