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Monopolies Suck
- 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control
- Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck “lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dream - and why it’s more important than ever to take action” (David Cicilline).
Something’s not right. No matter how hard you work, life seems to only get harder. When your expenses keep going up but your income stays flat, when you’re price-gouged buying medicine for your child’s life-threatening allergy, when you live in a hyped-up state of fear and anxiety, monopoly power is playing a key role. In Monopolies Suck, antitrust expert and director at the Open Markets Institute, Sally Hubbard, shows us the seven ways big corporations rule our lives - and what must be done to stop them.
Throughout history, monopolists who controlled entire industries like railroads and oil were aptly called “robber barons” because they extracted wealth from everyone else - and today’s monopolies are no different. By charging high prices, skirting taxes, and reducing our pay and economic opportunities, they are not only stealing our money, but also robbing us of innovation and choice, as market dominance prevents new companies from challenging them. They’re robbing us of the ability to take care of our sick, a healthy food supply, and a habitable planet by using business practices that deplete rather than generate. They’re a threat to our private lives, fair elections, a robust press, and ultimately, the American Dream that so many of us are striving for.
In this “accessible guide” (Zephyr Teachout, author of Break ‘Em Up), Sally Hubbard gives us an easy-to-understand overview of the history of monopolies and antitrust law, and urges us to use our voices, votes, and wallets to protest monopoly power. Emboldened by the previous century when we successfully broke up monopoly power in the US, we have the tools to dismantle corporate power again today - before their lobbying threatens to undermine our economy and democracy for generations to come.
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Badly needed discussion
This truly is the root problem of our society. Almost all of our woes can be pointed at monopolies. thank you Sally for bringing this subject more light than it has had in the past.
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Big Business
- A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
- By: Tyler Cowen
- Narrated by: Steve Edwards
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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If business is so bad, why does it remain so integral to the basic functioning of America? Economist and best-selling author Tyler Cowen says our biggest problem is that we don’t love business enough. In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions.
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Good book poorly read
- By Alan on 10-01-19
By: Tyler Cowen
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Antitrust
- Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
- By: Amy Klobuchar
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara, Amy Klobuchar
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today - and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and offers achievable solutions to prevent monopolies, promote business competition, and encourage innovation.
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Not Just Monopolies But Progressive Politics Too
- By J.B. on 05-01-21
By: Amy Klobuchar
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The Raging 2020s
- Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
- By: Alec Ross
- Narrated by: Alec Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times best-selling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of power between government, citizens, and business.
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A Broader View of Corporate Success
- By Daryl Kulak on 09-18-21
By: Alec Ross
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Greedy Bastards
- Corporate Communists, Banksters, and the Other Vampires Who Suck America Dry
- By: Dylan Ratigan
- Narrated by: Dylan Ratigan
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell. Infuriated by government corruption and corporate communism, incensed by banksters shaking down taxpayers, and despairing of an ailing health care system, an age-old dependency on foreign oil, and a failing educational system, Ratigan sees an America that has allowed itself to be swindled and robbed. In this book, his first, he rips the lid off our deeply crooked system—and offers a way out.
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Like Rattigan, Full Of Drama, Not Much Substance
- By BruceK on 03-19-12
By: Dylan Ratigan
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Trump and the American Future
- Solving the Great Problems of Our Time
- By: Newt Gingrich
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Newt Gingrich lays out the stakes of the 2020 elections and what the end results could mean for the future of American citizens. Trump and the American Future by Newt Gingrich will lay out the stakes of the 2020 election and provide a clarion call for all Americans on why it is vital to return President Trump to the White House for a second term.
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Newt's book is literally the opposite of fake news
- By Screenwriter22 on 07-30-20
By: Newt Gingrich
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Life Inc.
- How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back
- By: Douglas Rushkoff
- Narrated by: Douglas Rushkoff
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Douglas Rushkoff, in tracing the roots of corporatism from the Renaissance to today, reveals the way it supplanted social interaction and local commerce and came to be regarded as a preexisting condition of our world, from the history of public relations to the relentless gentrification of America's urban neighborhoods. And he shows us how to fight back: how to de-corporatize ourselves, disengage from branded expectations, think locally, and return to the real world of human activity.
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He whines about everything
- By Mark on 06-26-09
By: Douglas Rushkoff
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Monopolized
- Life in the Age of Corporate Power
- By: David Dayen
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last 40 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.
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Fantastic
- By Amazon Customer on 08-11-20
By: David Dayen
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Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death
- By: Allen West
- Narrated by: Allen West
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Texas is booming. But this increase in population has also brought about a shift in the political dialogue within Texas's borders. As more people pour into Texas, they bring with them liberal and socialist ideologies as they try to swing the state from red to blue. In Hold Texas, Hold the Nation West makes his stand, asserting that Texas must hold fast to its conservative ways and resist succumbing to liberal mindsets, or else cease to prosper, and begin to perish.
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God bless Texas
- By Jedi Chris on 06-02-20
By: Allen West
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Progressive Capitalism
- How to Make Tech Work for All of Us
- By: Ro Khanna
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Unequal access to technology and the revenue it creates is one of the most pressing issues in the United States. An economic gulf exists between those who have struck gold in the tech industry and those left behind by the digital revolution; a geographic divide between those in the coastal tech industry and those in the heartland whose jobs have been automated; and existing inequalities in the technological access—students without computers, rural workers with spotty WiFi, and many workers without the luxury to work remotely.
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great ideas, but pointed the finger much.
- By Chris on 05-01-22
By: Ro Khanna
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Breaking Through Power
- It's Easier Than We Think
- By: Ralph Nader
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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In Breaking Through Power, Ralph Nader draws from a lifetime waging - and often winning - David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the US government.
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Ralph explains Power & Plutocracy
- By Sleeper on 01-18-19
By: Ralph Nader
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The Tyranny of Big Tech
- By: Josh Hawley
- Narrated by: Tom Parks, Josh Hawley - preface
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Amassing unimaginable amounts of personal data, giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple - once symbols of American ingenuity and freedom - have become a techno-oligarchy with overwhelming economic and political power. Decades of unchecked data collection have given Big Tech more targeted control over Americans’ daily lives than any company or government in the world. In The Tyranny of Big Tech, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri argues that these mega-corporations - controlled by the robber barons of the modern era - are the gravest threat to American liberty in decades.
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An important book everyone should read.
- By Bill on 05-14-21
By: Josh Hawley
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System Error
- Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
- By: Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, Jeremy M. Weinstein
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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In no more than the blink of an eye, a naïve optimism about technology’s liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. System Error exposes the root of our current predicament - how big tech’s relentless focus on optimization is driving a future that reinforces discrimination, erodes privacy, displaces workers, and pollutes the information we get- and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.
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Excellent on tech. Weak on political speech.
- By Kindle Customer on 11-05-21
By: Rob Reich, and others