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Author : Clair Wilcox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89001980176
Author : Jon Lauck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0803229321
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers? concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads in the late nineteenth century. Jon Lauck examines the dimensions of this problem in the American Midwest in the decades following World War II. He analyzes the nature of competition within meat-packing and grain markets. In addition, he addresses concerns about corporate entry into production agriculture and the potential displacement of a production system defined by independent family farms. Lauck also considers the ability of farmers to organize in order to counter the market power of large-scale agribusiness buyers. He explores the use of farmer cooperatives and other mechanisms which may increase the bargaining power of farmers. The book offers the first serious historical examination of the National Farmers Organization, which fully embraced the bargaining power cause in the postwar period. Lauck finds that independent farmers? attempts at organization have been more successful than previously recognized, but he also shows that their successes have been undermined by the growing concentration and power of agri-business firms, justifying a new approach to antitrust law in agricultural markets.
Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195352665
In this incisive and comprehensive history, business historian Charles Geisst traces the rise of monopolies from the railroad era to today's computer software empires. The history of monopolies has been dominated by strong and charismatic personalities. Geisst tells the stories behind the individuals--from John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie to Harold Geneen and Bill Gates--who forged these business empires with genius, luck, and an often ruthless disregard for fair competition. He also analyzes the viewpoints of their equally colorful critics, from Louis Brandeis to Ralph Nader. These figures enliven the narrative, offering insight into how large businesses accumulate power. Viewed as either godsends or pariahs, monopolies have sparked endless debate and often conflicting responses from Washington. Monopolies in America surveys the important pieces of legislation and judicial rulings that have emerged since the post-Civil War era, and proposes that American antitrust activity has had less to do with hard economics than with political opinion. What was considered a monopoly in 1911 when Standard Oil and American Tobacco were broken up was not applied again when the Supreme Court refused to dismantle U.S. Steel in 1919. Charting the growth of big business in the United States, Geisst reaches the startling conclusion that the mega-mergers that have dominated Wall Street headlines for the past fifteen years are not simply a trend, but a natural consequence of American capitalism. Intelligent and informative, Monopolies in America skillfully chronicles the course of American big business, and allows us to see how the debate on monopolies will be shaped in the twentieth-first century.
Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523087754
“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 same as cancer does in a body, and, like cancer, they weaken our systems while threatening to crash the entire body economic. American monopolies have also seized massive political power and use it to maintain their obscene profits and CEO salaries while crushing small competitors. But Thom Hartmann, America's #1 progressive radio host, shows we've broken the control of behemoths like these before, and we can do it again. Hartmann takes us from the birth of America as a revolt against monopoly (remember the Boston Tea Party?), to the largely successful efforts of both Presidents Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt and other like-minded leaders to restrain corporations' monopolistic urges, to the massive changes in the rules of business starting during the “Reagan Revolution” that have brought us to the cancer stage of capitalism. He shows the damage monopolies have done to so many industries: agriculture, healthcare, the media, and more. Individuals have taken a hit as well: the average American family pays a $5,000 a year “monopoly tax” in the form of higher prices for everything from pharmaceuticals to airfare to household goods and food. But Hartmann also describes commonsense, historically rooted measures we can take—such as revitalizing antitrust regulation, taxing great wealth, and getting money out of politics—to pry control of our country from the tentacles of the monopolists.
Author : George H. Quester
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1412829844
Throughout the Cold War, theorists argue, nuclear arms stopped war, as both sides could retaliate with ""mutual assured destruction"". This fact begs the question: why did the USA not strike preemptively before the USSR developed atomic arms? This text sets the case for such a preventive nuclear war.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045466401
Author : James Sheehan
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571320318
Since 1945, the European states which had previously glamorised their military elites, and made going to war the highest expression of patriotism, have renounced violence as a way of settling their disputes. Violence has been eclipsed as a tool of statesmen. This astonishing reversal is the subject of James Sheehan's masterly book. It is also a timely reminder of the differences between Europe and America, at a time when the USA is asserting its right and duty to make war for ideological or self-interested ends. And how Europeans will live in this dangerous, violent world is a question that becomes ever more urgent as the chaos in the Middle East affects the stability of societies with open frontiers and liberal traditions.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1798 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU05274052
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Trusts, Industrial
ISBN : LOC:00176607063
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Study of Monopoly Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Antitrust law
ISBN : LOC:00176606836
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1206 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008483823
Author : Matt Stoller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501182891
“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business. Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis. A concentration of power—whether by government or banks—was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few whose misuse of their power induced a financial collapse. They drew on this tradition to craft the New Deal. In Goliath, Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that many modern Americans never even knew existed. Today’s bitter recriminations and panic represent more than just fear of the future, they reflect a basic confusion about what is happening and the historical backstory that brought us to this moment. The true effects of populism, a shrinking middle class, and concentrated financial wealth are only just beginning to manifest themselves under the current administrations. The lessons of Stoller’s study will only grow more relevant as time passes. “An engaging call to arms,” (Kirkus Reviews) Stoller illustrates here in rich detail how we arrived at this tenuous moment, and the steps we must take to create a new democracy.
Author : Paul A. Baran,Paul Marlor Sweezy
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853450733
This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought, a hugely influential book that continues to shape our understanding of modern capitalism. “This book… deals with a vital area of economics, has a unique approach, is stimulating and well written. It represents the first serious attempt to extend Marx’s model of competitive capitalism to the new conditions of monopoly capitalism.” — Howard J. Sherman, American Economic Review
Author : G. C. Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136510861
Appendix contains useful extracts from legislation. Author well known for work on the organization of British industry and the Japanese economy.
Author : Jon Lauck
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780803295261
The breathtaking number of mergers and joint ventures among agribusiness firms has left independent American farmers facing the power of an increasingly concentrated buying sector. The origin of farmers’ concern with such economic concentration dates back to protests against meatpackers and railroads in the late nineteenth century. Jon Lauck examines the dimensions of this problem in the American Midwest in the decades following World War II. He analyzes the nature of competition within meat-packing and grain markets. In addition, he addresses concerns about corporate entry into production agriculture and the potential displacement of a production system defined by independent family farms. Lauck also considers the ability of farmers to organize in order to counter the market power of large-scale agribusiness buyers. He explores the use of farmer cooperatives and other mechanisms which may increase the bargaining power of farmers. The book offers the first serious historical examination of the National Farmers Organization, which fully embraced the bargaining power cause in the postwar period. Lauck finds that independent farmers’ attempts at organization have been more successful than previously recognized, but he also shows that their successes have been undermined by the growing concentration and power of agri-business firms, justifying a new approach to antitrust law in agricultural markets.
