Thread by @doctorow

MONOPOLIES SUCK is a title I wish I'd thought of - talk about "does what it says on the tin!"

It's by @Sally_Hubbard, Director of Enforcement Strategy at @openmarkets and retired antitrust enforcer for the NY Attorney General.

It's great.

simonandschuster.com/books/Monopoli…

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Hubbard's got deep experience, and she brings the same kind of verve to this book that Zephyr Teachout delivered in her (also excellent) (and also brilliantly titled) BREAK 'EM UP:

pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/bre…

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But Hubbard's got another thing going for her: institutional support. The Open Markets Institute operates a range of advocacy programs for angry members of the public (e.g. you), and each of Hubbard's chapters ends on ways you can engage in the policy questions she raises.

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Each of the seven chapter tackles a different way in which market concentration is fucking you over, personally: from Big Tech to Big Pharma, monopolies in labor markets and monopolies distorting elections and policy - including policy to soften the blazing climate emergency.

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Hubbard has done the important work of relating monopolism to your daily life - the ways in which you, personally, are made worse off, every day, by unchecked corporate concentration and power.

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This is an outstanding and important read, and the kind of book you can give to a furious, puzzled friend to help them put the picture together - and to launch them on a lifetime of advocacy for better, more pluralistic world.

(also: that title!)

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