Can users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
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Open Markets Food & Power reporter Leah Douglas reviews Philip Howard's "Concentration and Power in the Food System" in the Washington Monthly. His slim book which poses a simple question: who controls what we eat? Four companies decide what meat you eat, two choose what milk you buy, and soon only one will determine what beer you drink. Are we all fine with that?
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The credit reporting debate we should be having.
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Ten old/new ideas to give power back to the people.
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In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
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Monopoly is back: Barry Lynn on the concentration of American economic power — and how we can restore fairness
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He had opportunities to help the working class, and he passed them up.
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In this piece on The Nation, Open Markets reporter Leah Douglas looks at an obscure legal loophole which has resulted in African Americans losing acres of land throughout the last century. Millions of farmers of all races were pushed off their land in the early part of the century, including around 600,000 black farmers. By 1975, just 45,000 black-owned farms remained.
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The company has established its level of dominance because of the failings of our current antitrust laws. To understand why, you first need to understand the scope of Amazon’s power.
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Open Markets fellow Matthew Stoller writes on the Huffington Post that Jeff Bezos has created an empire that’s quickly raising political questions. Like Google and Facebook, Amazon uses technology and data to sidestep traditional restrictions on monopoly power. Now, Bezos is attempting to add more power to his empire with the surprise announcement that the company will pay $13.7 billion for Whole Foods Market.
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And what it means for American democracy.
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Taking money from an investment bank in the form of a speaking fee is not immoral, it is eminently reasonable.
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Silicon Valley is the story of overthrowing entrenched interests through innovation.
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A wave of new research shows how as corporations get bigger, the share of money out there going to actual workers declines.
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Having dominated the Democratic Party for years, the meritocrats now find themselves in a state of crisis.
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Re-embracing anti-monopoly will reinvigorate American liberty and beat back Trumpism.
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Can users of what is essentially privatized social infrastructure really log off?
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He had opportunities to help the working class, and he passed them up.
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