The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu

The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu

From the man who coined the term "net neutrality," 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, Tim Wu explains 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 Columbia Law School professor, and a New York Times contributing opinion writer. He is credited with coining the term net neutrality. He worked on competition policy at the Obama White House and the Federal Trade Commission, was a senior enforcement counsel at the New York Attorney General's Office, and clerked for Judge Stephen Breyer at the Supreme Court. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires and The Attention Merchants: The Epic Race to Get Into Our Minds are two of his earlier books.

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ISBN 10	0999745468
Title	The Curse of Bigness
Author	Tim Wu
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Columbia Global Reports
Year published	2018-11-13
Number of pages	154
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