Books by Amy Klobuchar
“She argues, like others, that what is fundamentally needed in a democratic system is a balance of power. When companies get too big, they become too powerful and they mistreat the customer, they mistreat their labor, they mistreat their communities. She says we simply need to reapply antitrust law again (she’s originally a lawyer, as is her husband). It’s a political statement. She says we need antitrust to rectify the imbalance between the rich and those of more modest income. She is angry about the power of money in corporate lobbying in Washington. She says we need to break up the big tech companies, to have divestments.” Read more...
The best books on Market Concentration
Jan Loeys, Economist
Interviews where books by Amy Klobuchar were recommended
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The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
by Susan Berfield -
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The Curse of Bigness: Anti-Trust in the New Gilded Age
by Tim Wu -
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Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
by Amy Klobuchar -
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The Great Reversal: How America Gave up on Free Markets
by Thomas Philippon -
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The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
by Jan Eeckhout
The best books on Market Concentration, recommended by Jan Loeys
The best books on Market Concentration, recommended by Jan Loeys
Power corrupts and corporate power is no exception: its effects are bad for consumers, bad for workers and bad for the economy. Here, Belgian American economist Jan Loeys recommends books that look at the economic and political implications of ‘market concentration,’ and explains why we don’t need governments that are pro-business but ones that are pro-market.
