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'Goliath' Explores The History Of Concentrated Power & The Struggle Between Monopoly & Democracy

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss Matt Stoller’s new book Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.

He argues that concentrated economic power threatens democracy and that big tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook are today’s new monopolists. How much power do these monopolies really have? What will it take to enforce antitrust laws? What else can we do to take on concentrated power? 

Guest:

Matt Stoller, author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy and Fellow at the Open Markets Institute 

 

Web Resources:

Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

Fast Company: This man says Big Tech is ‘the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War’

VICE: How Democrats Became the Party of Monopoly and Corruption

Forbes: America Has A Monopoly Problem