a great introduction to the monopolization of the US economy
A key phenomenon of the past fifty years has been the explosion in the monopoly control of virtually every market sector in the US economy. I’ve written frequently about this. For an overview, see my earlier Competitive Capitalism – long dead in the US: Monopolization of the economy is a central driver of our troubles….
99% Invisible’s podcast Food Deserts is a very accessible and thorough introduction to how free market fundamentalists of the 1970s and ‘80s, in academe and the government, decided to simply ignore the anti-monopoly laws and regulations on the books since the Great Depression and even earlier. I won’t go further here.
Listen to this podcast.
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