{"product_id":"the-curse-of-bigness-antitrust-in-the-new-gilded-age-9780999745465","title":"The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dollar tech companies.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the man who coined the term \"net neutrality,\" author of \u003ci\u003eThe Master Switch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Attention Merchants\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms -- big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the \"curse of bigness\" can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it has spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening democracy itself. History suggests that tolerance of inequality and failing to control excessive corporate power may prompt the rise of populism, nationalism, extremist politicians, and fascist regimes. In short, as Wu warns, we are in grave danger of repeating the signature errors of the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Curse of Bigness\u003c\/i\u003e, Columbia professor Tim Wu tells of how figures like Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt first confronted the democratic threats posed by the great trusts of the Gilded Age--but the lessons of the Progressive Era were forgotten in the last 40 years. He calls for recovering the lost tenets of the trustbusting age as part of a broader revival of American progressive ideas as we confront the fallout of persistent and extreme economic inequality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia Global Reports\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999745465\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.40h x 5.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/24\/2018\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tim Wu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36647350206620,"sku":"9780999745465","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_aa831dfb-883b-4661-bf73-9f1da27e69d9.jpg?v=1603866846","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-curse-of-bigness-antitrust-in-the-new-gilded-age-9780999745465","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}