Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
Zephyr Teachout, "Break 'Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money"
English | ISBN: 125020089X | 2020 | 320 pages | AZW | 1110 KB
English | ISBN: 125020089X | 2020 | 320 pages | AZW | 1110 KB
"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost every aspect of American life, and you will also learn about what can be done to stop that trend before it is too late."
―From the foreword by Bernie Sanders.
A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy.
Every facet of American life is being overtaken by big platform monopolists like Facebook, Google, and Bayer (which has merged with the former agricultural giant Monsanto), resulting in a greater concentration of wealth and power than we've seen since the Gilded Age. They are evolving into political entities that often have more influence than the actual government, bending state and federal legislatures to their will and even creating arbitration courts that circumvent the US justice system. How can we recover our freedom from these giants? Anti-corruption scholar and activist Zephyr Teachout has the answer:
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