A review of Break ‘Em Up by Zephyr Teachout. Published in 2020 it’s a worthwhile addition to the growing anti-monopoly movement.
Book Review: Break ‘Em Up by Zephyr Teachout
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When negative externalities threaten Dart Container, it threatens back
Dart Container’s core product is potentially damaging to the world. Management’s response? Fight.
Review: The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu
The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu succinctly distills a generation of anti-monopoly research into one easily digestible volume.
Why did FDR drop Henry Wallace from the 1944 Presidential Ticket?
In July 1944, a little over a year before WW2 ended, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt looked tired and sick. Publicly, he was taking a month-long rest under the guise of war planning. Privately, he was diagnosed with severe hypertension, heart disease, cardiac failure, and acute bronchitis. The stress of leading a nation at war, rehabilitating… Continue reading
Book Review: The New Deal by Michael Hiltzik
In The New Deal, journalist Michael Hiltzik, tells the story of the people, policies, and actions that shaped the nation.
Classic Read: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul
Matt Stoller’s How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul is the best political analysis I’ve read all year.
Competition creates innovation: Creative Destruction & America’s problem
In the early 1940s, Joseph Schumpeter, a Harvard economics professor, was researching business innovation. At this time, innovation wasn’t really something that was studied, it was just something that occurred. Outside of Bell Labs, no organization seemed interested in investigating how great ideas came to be, and how they were scaled to society. Schumpeter was… Continue reading
Mercantilism: Donald Trump’s Economic Policy
Human dried apricot Donald Trump was born on third and thinks he invented baseball. His followers feel forgotten in modern America. But hidden behind his insane belief that a wall will stop migration and America should ban ¼ of the world’s population are some “interesting” economic policy ideas. Donald Trump’s economic policy is interesting because… Continue reading
The Dangers of Data Journalism
I like Catherine Rampell. I can’t say that I am a regular reader, but every time I am forwarded something she wrote I normally read it. That being said, this week wasn’t a good week to be Catherine Rampell. She inadvertently made a case study in the dangers of data journalism.
Classic Reads: Simon Johnson’s “The Quiet Coup”
In May 2009 The Atlantic Magazine published an article by Simon Johnson titled, “The Quiet Coup.” Today, “The Quiet Coup” stands as one of the watershed articles on the 2008 financial crisis