Cornered The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

Name: Cornered The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction
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ISBN: 9780470928561

ISBN-10: 0470928565

ISBN-13: 9780470928561

Edition: 2010

Authors: Barry C. Lynn

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Regular Harper's and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector of the American economy.Cornered strips the camouflage from the secret world of twenty-first-century monopolies-neofeudalist empires whose sheer size, vast resources, and immense political power enable them to control virtually every major industry in America in an increasingly authoritarian manner. He reveals how these massive juggernauts, which would have been illegal just thirty…

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List price: $11.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 3/9/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface: Of Rule and Ruin


Acknowledgments



The Hidden Monopolies Everywhere



Supply and Command



The Crystal House



The Market Masters



In the Cockpit



Lightning Escapes the Bottle



The American Piece



Wreckonomics 101



To Keep Our Republic


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index