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Modern Monopolies

Author : Alex Moazed,Nicholas L. Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781250091901

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Modern Monopolies by Alex Moazed,Nicholas L. Johnson Pdf

In Modern Monopolies, Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson tell the definitive story of what has changed, what it means for businesses today, and how managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners can adapt and thrive in this new era. What do Google, Snapchat, Tinder, Amazon, and Uber have in common, besides soaring market share? They're platforms - a new business model that has quietly become the only game in town, creating vast fortunes for its founders while dominating everyone's daily life. A platform, by definition, creates value by facilitating an exchange between two or more interdependent groups. So, rather that making things, they simply connect people. The Internet today is awash in platforms - Facebook is responsible for nearly 25 percent of total Web visits, and the Google platform crash in 2013 took about 40 percent of Internet traffic with it. Representing the ten most trafficked sites in the U.S., platforms are also prominent over the globe; in China, they hold the top eight spots in web traffic rankings. The advent of mobile computing and its ubiquitous connectivity have forever altered how we interact with each other, melding the digital and physical worlds and blurring distinctions between "offline" and "online." These platform giants are expanding their influence from the digital world to the whole economy. Yet, few people truly grasp the radical structural shifts of the last ten years.

Monopolies Suck

Author : Sally Hubbard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781982149710

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Monopolies Suck by Sally Hubbard Pdf

"An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck shows how monopoly power is harming everyday Americans and practical ways we can all fight back."--

In Defense of Monopoly

Author : Richard B. McKenzie,Dwight R. Lee
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472116150

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In Defense of Monopoly by Richard B. McKenzie,Dwight R. Lee Pdf

A provocative defense of market dominance

The Myth of Capitalism

Author : Jonathan Tepper
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781394184064

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The Myth of Capitalism by Jonathan Tepper Pdf

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high speed Internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, social networks, Internet searches, or even consumer goods like toothpaste. Every day, the average American transfers a little of their pay check to monopolists and oligopolists. The solution is vigorous anti-trust enforcement to return America to a period where competition created higher economic growth, more jobs, higher wages and a level playing field for all. The Myth of Capitalism is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone, because the stakes could not be higher. It tackles the big questions of: why is the US becoming a more unequal society, why is economic growth anemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why are workers losing out.

The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies

Author : Bilić, Paško,Prug, Toni,Mislav Zitko
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529212372

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The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies by Bilić, Paško,Prug, Toni,Mislav Zitko Pdf

As outrage over the socially damaging practices of technology companies intensifies, this book asks what it actually means to hold a 'monopoly' in the tech world and offers an in-depth analysis of how these corporate giants are produced, financialized, and regulated.

The Hidden History of Monopolies

Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523087754

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The Hidden History of Monopolies by Thom Hartmann Pdf

“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.

Monopolies in America

Author : Charles R. Geisst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195352665

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Monopolies in America by Charles R. Geisst Pdf

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.

Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets

Author : Francesco Ducci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108491143

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Natural Monopolies in Digital Platform Markets by Francesco Ducci Pdf

Through three case studies, this book investigates whether digital industries are naturally monopolistic and evaluates policy approaches to market power.

Monopolized

Author : David Dayen
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781620975428

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From the airlines we fly to the food we eat, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives—by one of our most intrepid and accomplished journalists "If you're looking for a book . . . that will get your heart pumping and your blood boiling and that will remind you why we're in these fights—add this one to your list." —Senator Elizabeth Warren on David Dayen's Chain of Title Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service we secure comes from a heavily concentrated market. This is a world where four major banks control most of our money, four airlines shuttle most of us around the country, and four major cell phone providers connect most of our communications. If you are sick you can go to one of three main pharmacies to fill your prescription, and if you end up in a hospital almost every accessory to heal you comes from one of a handful of large medical suppliers. Dayen, the editor of the American Prospect and author of the acclaimed Chain of Title, provides a riveting account of what it means to live in this new age of monopoly and how we might resist this corporate hegemony. Through vignettes and vivid case studies Dayen shows how these monopolies have transformed us, inverted us, and truly changed our lives, at the same time providing readers with the raw material to make monopoly a consequential issue in American life and revive a long-dormant antitrust movement.

Deadly Monopolies

Author : Harriet A. Washington
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780767931236

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Deadly Monopolies by Harriet A. Washington Pdf

From the award-winning author of Medical Apartheid, an exposé of the rush to own and exploit the raw materials of life—including yours. Think your body is your own to control and dispose of as you wish? Think again. The United States Patent Office has granted at least 40,000 patents on genes controlling the most basic processes of human life, and more are pending. If you undergo surgery in many hospitals you must sign away ownership rights to your excised tissues, even if they turn out to have medical and fiscal value. Life itself is rapidly becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the medical-industrial complex. Deadly Monopolies is a powerful, disturbing, and deeply researched book that illuminates this “life patent” gold rush and its harmful, and even lethal, consequences for public health. Like the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, it reveals in shocking detail just how far the profit motive has encroached in colonizing human life and compromising medical ethics.

Goliath

Author : Matt Stoller
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501182891

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Goliath by Matt Stoller Pdf

“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.

Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

Author : Harvard Business Review,Marco Iansiti,Karim R. Lakhani,Darrell K. Rigby,Vijay Govindarajan
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781633699021

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Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review by Harvard Business Review,Marco Iansiti,Karim R. Lakhani,Darrell K. Rigby,Vijay Govindarajan Pdf

How to compete in a world dominated by tech giants. A new breed of monopolies is threatening your business. Tech mega-firms from around the world are encroaching on your industry's space, rewriting the rules, and scooping up talent--and your customers. What should you and your company be doing right now to counter these challenges? Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking on corporate inequality and the future of antitrust, help you understand what these threats mean for your organization, and give your company the tools to succeed in the winner-take-all economy. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues--blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more--each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas--and prepare you and your company for the future.

Captive Audience

Author : Susan Crawford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300167375

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Captive Audience by Susan Crawford Pdf

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market—it also threatens the economic future of the nation. This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.

Monopoly

Author : Rod Kennedy,Jim Waltzer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1586853228

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Monopoly by Rod Kennedy,Jim Waltzer Pdf

The author chronicles the history of the world's most popular board game,racing the origins of each "property" within Atlantic City, New Jersey,hile recalling the evolution of the game. Original.

Monopoly

Author : Philip E. Orbanes
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306815928

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Monopoly by Philip E. Orbanes Pdf

Philip Orbanes, master of all things Monopoliana, traces the remarkable story of the world’s most famous board game, from its origins as a collegiate teaching tool in the early twentieth century through Monopoly’s explosive growth in the postwar decades, to the game’s current status as a fixture in homes across the globe. Along the way, Orbanes includes memorable Monopoly personality portraits, surprising Monopoly legends and lore, and an extraordinary tour of the ingenious advertising that contributed to the game’s rise in popularity. This is the first and only book to cover comprehensively the origin, growth, and global reach of the game that has become a universal and everyday cultural icon.