Machine generated contents note: The Core Solution: Competition. pt. Three America Was Founded on Resistance to Monopoly -- Birthed in the Fight Against Monopoly -- The Founders Challenge Monopoly -- Madison's Vision: Government to Fight Factions -- The Founders on Patents and Copyrights -- The Monopolists Rise Up -- Progressives Fight Back -- pt. Two Conservatives and Modern Monopolies vs. the Middle Class -- Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism -- Monopoly and Fascism in America Today -- Where Did America's Middle Class Come From? -- Where Did America's Middle Class Go? -- How Reaganomics Killed the Jetsons -- Reaganomics Ensured American Leisure for the Few, Not the Many -- More Unequal than Rome -- How the Monopolists Stole the US Government -- Government as a Monopoly? -- Commons vs. Private -- Libertarians Object -- The New Feudalism -- From Route 66 to Anytown, USA -- The Borking of America -- The Fortunes Bork Made -- Monopoly Is Anti-business -- pt. Three Living Monopoly Today and in Praise of Inefficiency -- Monopoly in Milk: The End of a Family Dairy Farm -- Big Ag Mergers -- Monopoly in Pharma: Big Private Profits from Publicly Granted Patents -- Just Three Companies -- Hospital Consolidation Kills -- Monopoly in Media: How Big Money Controls the Stories We Tell -- The Early Days of Fox: Losing Money to Gain Political Power -- Unbundling Cable, Phones, and TV -- Turning Financial Power into Political Power -- The Racial Wealth Monopoly -- Monopolies over Labor -- Cheap Labor, and Getting Cheaper -- Less for Labor Means More for CEOs -- Solution: Democracy's Immune System -- Solution: Replace the ``Consumer Welfare`` Framework -- Solution: Break Up the Internet Giants -- Solution: Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty -- Solution: Ban Preemption Laws Written by Corporations -- The Core Solution: Competition.
Summary:
"The monopolistic power of companies like Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, and Google distorts and corrupts the American economy-but Thom Hartmann, America's #1 progressive radio host, shows we've broken the control of behemoths like these before, and we can do it again"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
The hidden history series. Hartmann, Thom, 1951- Hidden history series.
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