How I Got Fired From a D.C. Think Tank for Fighting Against the Power of Google
IN 2010, while I was pushing to break up big banks because they had become too powerful, I started to realize that the problem in America wasnt just big banks, it was corporate monopolies. But it was hard to find a strong contemporary voice writing about it or thinking about it, without going back a few generations.Then I found Barry C. Lynn and the Open Markets team at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. They were doing deep investigations into the agriculture industry, looking at Monsanto and Tyson, and they were looking into how big companies privatize courts through arbitration. They were also looking at a troubling new feature of our digital economy the great power wielded by a handful of tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google. The Open Markets team was grounded not only in critique, but solutions: showing how old antitrust laws and principles could address the political and economic distortions caused by monopolies in our turbulent era.
Källa: How I Got Fired From a D.C. Think Tank for Fighting Against the Power of Google
