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A manifesto for our times. Barry C. Lynn, one of the most original and surprising students of the American economy, paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector of the American economy. "Cornered" strips the camouflage from the secret world of twenty-first-century monopolies-neofeudalist empires whose sheer size, vast resources, and immense political power enable the people who control to direct virtually every major industry in America in an increasingly authoritarian manner. Lynn reveals how these massive juggernauts, which would have been illegal just thirty years ago, came into being, how they have destroyed or devoured their competition, and how they collude with one another to maintain their power and create the illusion of open, competitive markets. A confluence of small government zealotry and misguided efficient market theories has lead to a complete dismantling of government oversight of industry. Has that brought us the promised economic utopia? Just the opposite. For decades, the dominant elite has used the federal government to all but encourage companies to buy one another up, outsource all their production, and make their profits by leveraging their complete power over the market itself. Lynn makes clear it will take more than a lawsuit or two to overthrow America's corporatist oligarchy and restore a model of capitalism that protects our rights as property holders and citizens, and the independence of our Republic.Details how regular citizens can join together to beat the great powers, and how to do so by relearning the real history and language of our democratic republic.Includes stories of real people and real industries that show how monopolies threaten independent businesses, squelch innovation, degrade the quality and safety of products, destabilize vital industrial and financial systems, and destroy the fabric of democracyExplores monopoly power across a wide array of industries, including appliances, auto parts, beer, eyeglasses, medical supplies, pet food, surfboards, vitamins, and more.Demonstrates how the drive for ""always lower prices"" makes your job disappear, puts your small business out of business, and turns dreams of entrepreneurial success into impossible fantasies Lynn is that rarest of creatures, a journalist whose theoretical writings are taken very seriously by the top policymakers and economic thinkers in Washington and around the world. His work has been compared already to John Kenneth Galbraith and Peter Drucker. "The Washington Post" called Lynn's last book-on globalization-""Tom Friedman for grownups."" "Cornered" is essential reading for anyone who cares about America and its future.
In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan,
toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500
people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas
began to close. Cut off from their supplies of semiconductor chips,
companies like Dell and Hewlett-Packard began to shutter assembly
lines and send workers home. A disaster that only a decade earlier
would have been mainly local in nature almost cascaded into a grave
global crisis. The quake, in an instant, illustrated just how
closely connected the world had become and just how radically
different are the risks we all now face.
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