Books by Tim Wu
“He argues that corporate concentration ultimately leads to an equivalent on the government side, which is fascism. In Germany before World War II, there was massive corporate concentration, much more than in any other country. Big corporates needed a well-organized country, not the chaos of the Weimer Republic and hyperinflation. They needed a partner and that was Hitler. The same thing happened in Italy and Japan. Corporates have massive power, and they want the same power concentration in the government. Effectively, he says, corporate concentration leads to the destruction of democracy and he’s afraid that the same thing will happen in the US. America did not have fascism before, because we had antitrust, but at some point, Apple and Google will say, ‘Look at this stupid democracy, we need somebody to run the country properly.’” Read more...
The best books on Market Concentration
Jan Loeys, Economist
“Tim Wu is an American ‘cyberlawyer’—a new category of human being—and a rather brilliant one.” Read more...
Timothy Garton Ash, Historian
Interviews where books by Tim Wu were recommended
The best books on Free Speech, recommended by Timothy Garton Ash
Free speech is the bedrock of a healthy society, but how do we deal with the torrents of horrible comments—and worse—we see on the internet every day? Timothy Garton Ash, author of Free Speech: Ten Principles for A Connected World, outlines a plan for navigating the complexities and recommends the best books to help us think about free speech.
The best books on Impact of the Information Age, recommended by Nicholas Carr
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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
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.
