Monopolies

Monopolies

The Big Tech Extortion Racket

Host Violet Lucca, Guest Barry C. Lynn on September 18, 2020

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The Big Tech Extortion Racket

by Barry C. Lynn,

How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

by Rebecca Solnit,

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

Killing the Competition

by Barry C. Lynn,

How the new monopolies are destroying open markets

Selling Windows to the world

by David Chun,

Robber barons redux

by Lewis H. Lapham,

IBM on trial

by William Rodgers,

Gentlemen prefer monopoly

by Milton Viorst,

Beyond the ITT case

by Harlan Morse Blake,

Municipal monopoly

by Emanuel S. Savas,

U.S. vs. A&P

by John Williams Andrews,

Battle of titans

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The Big Tech Extortion Racket

The Big Tech Extortion Racket

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

Killing the Competition

Selling Windows to the world

Robber barons redux

IBM on trial

Gentlemen prefer monopoly

Beyond the ITT case

Municipal monopoly

U.S. vs. A&P