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Antitrust : taking on monopoly power from the gilded age to the digital age / Amy Klobuchar, with John Bessler.

Klobuchar, Amy, (VerfasserIn,, author.). Bessler, John D., (VerfasserIn.,, author.).

Summary:

Monopoly - it's not just a game : the roots of America's anti-monopolist movement -- Don't trust the trusts : James J. Hill, the Gilded Age, and the labor movement -- A heartland rebellion : the grangers, a political prairie fire, and a republican authors the Sherman Act -- Teddy Roosevelt and the antitrust enforcers : the trustbusters take over the white house -- The last 100 years : a century of antitrust action (and inaction) in the courts and Congress -- We the people : why antitrust matters for our democracy and our economy -- The modern-day antitrust challenges: corporate consolidation, congressional inertia, and the conservative courts -- The path forward : the solutions to America's monopoly problem.
"An exploration of antitrust laws and their enforcement, and of the importance of antitrust for the American people."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525654896
  • ISBN: 0525654895
  • Physical Description: 607 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Subject: Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919.
United States. Sherman Act.
Competition, Unfair > United States > History.
Restraint of trade > United States > History.
Antitrust law > United States > History.
Antitrust law > United States.

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  • 12 of 12 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.

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North Kansas City Public Library 343.7307 KLOBUCHAR 2021 (Text) 0001002446894 Nonfiction Available -

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Antitrust : Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
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Antitrust : Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age


NATIONAL BESTSELLER . Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today-and Amy Klobuchar, the widely respected senior senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This fascinating history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and offers achievable solutions to prevent monopolies, promote business competition, and encourage innovation. In a world where Google reportedly controls 90 percent of the search engine market and Big Pharma's drug price hikes impact healthcare accessibility, monopolies can hurt consumers and cause marketplace stagnation. Klobuchar-the much-admired former candidate for president of the United States-argues for swift, sweeping reform in economic, legislative, social welfare, and human rights policies, and describes plans, ideas, and legislative proposals designed to strengthen antitrust laws and antitrust enforcement. Klobuchar writes of the historic and current fights against monopolies in America, from Standard Oil and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to the Progressive Era's trust-busters; from the breakup of Ma Bell (formerly the world's biggest company and largest private telephone system) to the pricing monopoly of Big Pharma and the future of the giant tech companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google. She begins with the Gilded Age (1870s-1900), when builders of fortunes and rapacious robber barons such as J. P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt were reaping vast fortunes as industrialization swept across the American landscape, with the rich getting vastly richer and the poor, poorer. She discusses President Theodore Roosevelt, who, during the Progressive Era (1890s-1920), "busted" the trusts, breaking up monopolies; the Clayton Act of 1914; the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914; and the Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950, which it strengthened the Clayton Act. She explores today's Big Pharma and its price-gouging; and tech, television, content, and agriculture communities and how a marketplace with few players, or one in which one company dominates distribution, can hurt consumer prices and stifle innovation. As the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, Klobuchar provides a fascinating exploration of antitrust in America and offers a way forward to protect all Americans from the dangers of curtailed competition, and from vast information gathering, through monopolies.

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