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BONUS: Don't Pass Go—without learning more about monopolies (with Barry Lynn)

BONUS: Don't Pass Go—without learning more about monopolies (with Barry Lynn)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


BONUS: Don't Pass Go—without learning more about monopolies (with Barry Lynn)

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

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Length:
21 minutes
Released:
Jul 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

We’re revisiting a timeless topic: monopolies! Expert Barry Lynn shares his thoughts on market concentration, the dangers of industrial monopolies like Boeing, and what ‘reigning in’ companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon actually means.
Barry Lynn is the Executive Director of the Open Markets Institute. Previously, he spent 15 years at the New America Foundation researching and writing about monopoly power. He is the author of ‘Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction’ and ‘End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation’. 
Twitter: @openmarkets
Further reading: 
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/antimonopoly-big-business/514358/
https://openmarketsinstitute.org/op-eds-and-articles/why-competition-matters/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/26/google-and-facebook-are-strangling-the-free-press-to-death-democracy-is-the-loser
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/02/facebook-google-monopoly-companies
Released:
Jul 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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