Books by Susan Berfield
“The word ‘antitrust’ comes from the late 1800s. The trusts were companies that got together to create holding companies. They acted together. The banker who organized a lot of these trusts was called John Pierpont Morgan. Morgan hated chaos and disorder, and a dynamic, capitalist economy is extremely chaotic…Susan Berfield’s book highlights the importance of popular anger about what large corporations are doing… Teddy Roosevelt did not go out and say, ‘I’m going to be cutting back on these companies.’ But he recognized that’s where the power was, and that the big corporates were purely trying to maximize their profits. J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller were the face of that. Without that ugly face of capitalism of large companies, we may not have seen that big antitrust movement.” Read more...
The best books on Market Concentration
Jan Loeys, Economist
Interviews where books by Susan Berfield 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.
