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Break 'em up : recovering our freedom from big ag, big tech, and big money /

"A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy. Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teachout, Zephyr (Author)
Other Authors: Sanders, Bernard (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : All Points Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Monopolies.
Big business.
Corporate power.
Corporations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The chickenization of the American middle class
  • Big Tech's governmental ambitions
  • Oh, journalism was murdered? Too bad!
  • Replacing justice with power
  • The body snatchers
  • Race and monopoly power
  • The wage mystery
  • The money power
  • No, you don't have to quit Facebook
  • We have the tools
  • Nationalize of decentralize? Big Pharma and the Green New Deal
  • Moral markets
  • Epilogue: 2040.