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Cornered The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

eBook, English, 2009
Turner Publishing Company, La Vergne, 2009
1 online resource (320 p.)
9780470557037, 0470557036
1349280493
Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
The Missing Force
The Next Crash
The Makers of Things
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
The Hidden Monopolies Everywhere
And Then There Was One
The Unkept Secret
The Feud over Feudalism
And Then There Was Less Than One
Chapter 2
Supply and Command
The Law of Variety
The Illusion of Choice
The Price of Control
A Market of One?
Chapter 3
The Crystal House
The Industrial Estates
Number One or Number Two
The Smashing
The Monopolist
The Hydra
The Industrial State?
Built to Break Chapter 4
The Market Masters
Markets and Freedom
The Harnessing of Power
Meet the New Boss
The "Progress " of Man
The Restoration of Republic
The Pit
Chapter 5
In the Cockpit
The New Sharecroppers
The Paradox of Efficiency
The Invisible Fist
The Two Roads to Serfdom
The Politics of Milking
Chapter 6
Lightning Escapes the Bottle
From Land to Man
The Power of Patents
Quieting the Mind
The Monopoly Innovation Myth
One Best Way?
The Wave of the Past
Chapter 7
The American Piece
Squeeze Play
Rule and Reason The U.S. World System
Derangement
The Octopus and the Spider
Plantation Nation
Chapter 8
Wreckonomics 101
Merely Money
The Wall Street Commune
To Have and to Hold
Cerberus Unchained
Chapter 9
To Keep Our Republic
Manufacturing Destruction
The American Brain
To Get Regulation Right
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
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