CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: CANCER AND MONOPOLY
Monopoly Kills: Competition, Creativity, and Americans
PART ONE: AMERICA WAS FOUNDED ON RESISTANCE TO MONOPOLY
Birthed in the Fight Against Monopoly
The Founders Challenge Monopoly
Madison’s Vision: Government to Fight Factions
The Founders on Patents and Copyrights
PART TWO: CONSERVATIVES AND MODERN MONOPOLIES VS. THE MIDDLE CLASS
Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism
Monopoly and Fascism in America Today
Where Did America’s Middle Class Come From?
Where Did America’s Middle Class Go?
How Reaganomics Killed the Jetsons
Reaganomics Ensured American Leisure for the Few, Not the Many
How the Monopolists Stole the US Government
PART THREE: LIVING MONOPOLY TODAY AND IN PRAISE OF INEFFICIENCY
Monopoly in Milk: The End of a Family Dairy Farm
Monopoly in Pharma: Big Private Profits from Publicly Granted Patents
Monopoly in Media: How Big Money Controls the Stories We Tell
The Early Days of Fox: Losing Money to Gain Political Power
Unbundling Cable, Phones, and TV
Turning Financial Power into Political Power
Cheap Labor, and Getting Cheaper
Less for Labor Means More for CEOs
Solution: Democracy’s Immune System
Solution: Replace the “Consumer Welfare” Framework
Solution: Break Up the Internet Giants
Solution: Bring Back the Corporate Death Penalty
Solution: Ban Preemption Laws Written by Corporations