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发表于2024-08-23
The Curse of Bigness pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
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.
Tim Wu is a policy advocate, a professor at Columbia Law School and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality." He worked on competition policy in the Obama White House and the Federal Trade Commission, served as senior enforcement counsel at the New York Office of the Attorney General, and worked at the Supreme Court for Justice Stephen Breyer. His previous books are The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires and The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside our Heads.
印象比较深的是Roosevelt 推行反托拉斯法并不是因为经济因素而是出于垄断集团的political influence。最后讲 big tech有点一带而过。
评分Smoothly written. 看完之后觉得要去找找Brandeis的书读读。有个小地方提到Learned Hand描述和Brandeis相处的感受,总会觉得自己不够好(not adequate? 记不清原文了)Brandeis跟他说 you drink too much 。。真是笑死我了
评分写得很好。整个历史讲了遍
评分“The antitrust jurisprudence is a sad story, much like that of the first amendment” -L
评分potential senior essay reading. 最喜欢这种好好说人话的作者!把american antitrust law理了一遍,中间pop up出的人名也是吓到我,想去找jp morgan的传记读一读。还有这作者的吐槽太好笑了:“And to my daughters Sierra and Essie, ‘without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.’”
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The Curse of Bigness pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024