The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu
The Curse of Bigness, Tim Wu
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The Curse of Bigness
Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

Author: Tim Wu

Narrator: Marc Cashman

Unabridged: 4 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018


Synopsis

From the man who coined the term "net neutrality," author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants, comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future.

We 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.

In The Curse of Bigness, 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tim on September 19, 2018

I learned an awful lot writing it.......more

Goodreads review by D. on November 12, 2019

The history of monopoly in the US began as an "economics eugenics movement” targeting those seen as unfit to deserve industrial life, Tim Wu writes in The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. Wu’s book, a history of monopoly power and public policy in America from the late 1800s onward......more

Goodreads review by Atila on October 18, 2019

Um livro bem curto do Tim Wu com um grande argumento, as novas grandes empresas (FB, Google, Apple, Amazon, Disney, etc.) crescem como crescem e fazem o que fazem por uma competição pelo monopólio. Ele documenta o histórico anti-truste americano, quando deixaram de quebrar/perseguir grandes monopóli......more

Goodreads review by Skip on January 04, 2021

Kudos to Tim Wu, who has written a readable treatise on the lamentable decline of anti-trust policy in the U.S. He praises the pioneering work of Louis Brandeis and the political strength of Teddy Roosevelt in ending the Gilded Age, led by men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller. Sadly, we are sl......more

Goodreads review by Zaphirenia on August 25, 2019

"Once upon a time, in the 1990s and 2000s, the Web and the Internet were new and everything was going to be different forever." Very comprehensive and consise, suitable for non-experts to understand the history and development of American antitrust law and policy, from the breakup of the first trus......more