Antimonopoly and American democracy /
"Despite considerable public interest in the emergence of new monopolies and their implications for American democracy, the dominant intellectual framework for concentrated economic power has focused narrowly on antitrust policy as a tool and on consumer welfare as a goal. This approach overloo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Despite considerable public interest in the emergence of new monopolies and their implications for American democracy, the dominant intellectual framework for concentrated economic power has focused narrowly on antitrust policy as a tool and on consumer welfare as a goal. This approach overlooks not only the broader democratic significance of monopolies, but also the fact that antitrust law is just one part of a highly contested American antimonopoly tradition concerned with managing concentrations of private and public power. Across the long arc of American antimonopolism—from the pre-Revolutionary era, through the sea changes of the Gilded Age and World War II, to the era of Big Tech—Antimonopoly and American Democracy challenges and contextualizes the long-dominant consumer-focused discourse of antitrust and many of its recently proposed alternatives. The volume's contributors highlight a range of sites of concentration, from land ownership to media reach, and attempts at combating them, from labor organizing to constitutional revision. The lessons contained in these histories form a foundation for clear thinking about concentrated economic power and democratic government, clarifying the stakes of economic concentration for the democratic distribution of political power"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 495 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197744680 9780197744703 0197744702 9780197744697 0197744699 9780197744680 |