Matt Stoller’s ‘Goliath’ seeks to recover and explain the anti-monopoly tradition of the 20th century, at a time when it is urgently needed in the 21st.
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How Neoliberal Policy Shaped the Internet—and What to Do About It Now
Unrestrained digital markets have given us monopoly, pervasive surveillance, and powerful vectors of disinformation. But a new agenda is emerging to turn things around.
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It’s Time to Break Up Disney
The company known for Mickey Mouse is now a sprawling conglomerate in entertainment and beyond, and that’s a big problem.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Unleash the Existing Anti-Monopoly Arsenal
Corporate power can be neutralized if federal agencies simply used the prodigious authority they’ve been granted.
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Monopolies, Trump, the Border, and Fascism
Concentrated corporate giants like Amazon and the private prison duopoly are sustaining Trump’s cruelties in the migrant camps.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Neoliberalism: Political Success, Economic Failure
The invisible hand is more like a thumb on the scale for the world’s elites. That’s why market fundamentalism has been unmasked as bogus economics but keeps winning politically.
Posted inEconomic Policy
In the Land of the Giants
This article appears in the Summer 2019 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. I spent the day after the 2016 election at Yale Law School, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater. I was supposed to speak to a foreclosure litigation class about my book Chain of Title, and then address the local chapter of the […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
Monopolist’s Worst Nightmare: The Elizabeth Warren Interview
“The problem is a government that won’t get in the fight on the side of the people.”
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The New Economic Concentration
The competition that justifies capitalism is being destroyed—by capitalists.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators
