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The Curse of Bigness

Tim Wu

  • Bindwijze: Paperback
  • Taal: en
  • Categorie: Mens & Maatschappij
  • ISBN: 9780999745465
Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
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Taal:en
Bindwijze:Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum:13 november 2018
Aantal pagina's:154
Illustraties:Nee
Betrokkenen
Hoofdauteur:Tim Wu
Hoofdauteur:Tim Wu
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:126 mm
Verpakking hoogte:16 mm
Verpakking lengte:190 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:318 g
Overige kenmerken
Extra groot lettertype:Nee
Studieboek:Ja
Verpakking breedte:126 mm
Verpakking hoogte:16 mm
Verpakking lengte:190 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht:318 g

Samenvatting

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 explains 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.