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Monopolies & Antirust Law / September 2024
A judge ruled in August that Google is an illegal monopoly when it comes to web search, and as a result, we could see significant changes to the internet (Ovide, 2024). For September 2024, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine monopolies and antitrust law.
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Behind the Search Box
Once seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless monetizing of private data, obsession with monopoly, and pervasive systems of labor discrimination and exploitation.
Competition and Antitrust Law: a Very Short Introduction
Drawing on case studies from the US and the European Union, this Very Short Introduction explores the promise and limitations of competitive market dynamics. It considers the delicate relationship between a free market economy and government intervention.
Buy Now: How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly
How Amazon combined branding and relationship marketing with massive distribution infrastructure to become the ultimate service brand in the digital economy.
How Antitrust Failed Workers
A trenchant account of an unacknowledged driver of inequality and wage stagnation in America: the failure of antitrust law to prevent the consolidation of employers, who use their market power to suppress wages.
Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism
Examines the most important and least understood tactic that China can deploy to counter western sanctions: antitrust law. Supplies theory and case studies to explain its strategic application over the course of the Sino-US tech war.
Antimonopoly and American Democracy
Traces the history of antimonopoly politics in the United States, arguing that organized action against concentrated economic power comprises an important American democratic tradition.
Regulating Big Tech
Condenses the vibrant tech policy debate into a toolkit for the policy maker, legal expert, and academic seeking to address one of the key issues facing democracies today: platform dominance and its impact on society.
The Profit Paradox
Shows how a small number of companies has been exploiting an unbridled rise in market power-the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace.
Rights Versus Antitrust
Antitrust or competition law is widely considered an essential part of the legal and political structures of most liberal democracies and an integral foundation of a market economy. In this book, the author disputes this understanding.
Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK
Provides a focused guide to the main provisions and policies at issue in the UK and EU, including topics such as anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and mergers.
Big Tech and the Digital Economy
This book asks a simple question: are the tech giants monopolies? In the current environment of suspicion towards the major technology companies as a result of concerns about their power and influence, it has become commonplace to talk of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, or Netflix as the modern day version of the nineteenth-century trusts.
Markets and Power in Digital Capitalism
Markets and power in digital capitalism delves into the complex world of modern capitalism, where technology giants reign supreme. From Google and Apple to Amazon and Tencent, these internet behemoths have reshaped the economic landscape, transforming capitalism as we know it.