Books by Jan Eeckhout
The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
by Jan Eeckhout
In The Profit Paradox Jan Eeckhout, an economist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, sets out to explore one of the challenges for our society and capitalism today: why, while many companies thrive, wages of a lot of the people working for them have stagnated. "There is a clear chain of events originating with dominant firms grabbing extreme market power," he writes. "This has profound implications for work, the source of income for the majority of people. Market power leads to wage stagnation and extreme wage inequality, and it stymies social mobility and economic dynamism." In short, the capitalism we have at the moment is not so much pro-market as pro-business. "To safeguard democracy and a just division of what society produces, we need regulation and institutions that foster pro-competitive capitalism," he argues. "We need that now, before it's too late!"
Interviews where books by Jan Eeckhout were recommended
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The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
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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
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The Great Reversal: How America Gave up on Free Markets
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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.
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The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
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The Great Reversal: How America Gave up on Free Markets
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How Antitrust Failed Workers
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Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet
by Michelle Meagher -
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The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy
by Jonathan B. Baker
The best books on Antitrust, recommended by Howard Smith
The best books on Antitrust, recommended by Howard Smith
Across sectors and around the world fewer and fewer companies dominate the economy, with negative consequences for consumers, workers and the economy as a whole. Here, Oxford economist Howard Smith introduces books on ‘antitrust,’ a key policy tool for ensuring that markets are actually functioning properly in market economies.
