Foundational Reading: Media Monopoly
Check out Open Markets Institute’s current reading list on media monopoly, tech and democracy.
Jamie Bartlett, The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It). Ebury Press, 2018.
Rana Foroohar, Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed its Founding Principles – and All of Us. Currency-Random House, 2019.
Nicholas Lemann, Can Journalism Be Saved? New York Review of Books, February 2020.
Steven Levy, Facebook: The Inside Story. Penguin, 2020.
Barry C. Lynn, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Emily Arnold McCully, Ida M. Tarbell: The Woman Who Challenged Big Business--and Won!. Clarion Books, 2014.
Roger McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Penguin, 2019.
Thomas Philippon, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets. Harvard University Press, 2019.
Victor Pickard, Democracy without journalism? : confronting the misinformation society. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology. Belknap Press, 2020.
Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism. Vintage Books-Penguin Random House, 2015.
Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Margaret Sullivan, Ghosting the news : local journalism and the crisis of American democracy. Columbia Global Reports, 2020.
Jonathan Taplin, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Zephyr Teachout, Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money. All Points Books, 2020.
Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn, The Myth of Capitalism. Wiley, 2018.
Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. Columbia Global Reports, 2018.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Hachette, 2019.
For additional reading on broader aspects of monopoly and antitrust, see Open Market's recommended winter reading list.