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Publisher's summary
The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies dominate key industries that affect our daily lives. Digital monopolies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon act as gatekeepers to the digital world. Amazon is capturing almost all online shopping dollars. We have the illusion of choice, but for most critical decisions, we have only one or two companies, when it comes to high speed internet, health insurance, medical care, mortgage title insurance, social networks, internet searches, or even consumer goods like toothpaste. Every day, the average American transfers a little of their paycheck to monopolists and oligopolists.
The solution is vigorous anti-trust enforcement to return America to a period where competition created higher economic growth, more jobs, higher wages, and a level playing field for all. The Myth of Capitalism is the story of industrial concentration, but it matters to everyone, because the stakes could not be higher. It tackles the big questions of: why the US is becoming a more unequal society, why economic growth is anemic despite trillions of dollars of federal debt and money printing, why the number of start-ups has declined, and why workers are losing out.
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The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which wealth is increasingly concentrated at the top - and where a grasping middle class simply does not have the resources to remain viable.
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How Are You Going to Pay for That?
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Yay, Taxes!!!
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Everyone needs to know this.
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Timothy Taylor is the best
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The Borrowers at the Fringe
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Economics for the Common Good
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When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto for a world in which economics, far from being a "dismal science," is a positive force for the common good.
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A Great Overview of the Challenges of Modern Econ
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If you love capitalism
If you want to know what’s really going on in America and truly want to fix the current state of things. This provides essential information about what’s really going on in the supposedly free market. The problem is in capitalism. The problem is they blatantly ignoring of the rules and laws which stifle Capitalism.
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- 12-20-21
The true issue of our time
Everyone should listen to and understand the premise of this book. Our country depends on it. It only re-enforced all the economic principles that I have been studying. My belief that both the right and left have it wrong and right.
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- Gib Reynolds
- 12-16-23
Should Be A Must Listen
Unpacks capitalism and what we have the America very well. I think this should be a must listen regardless of political leanings.
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- Fernando Martinez
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Important read!!
Interesting statistics. An excellent case for political/economic reform. The author does a good job telling stories to make a potentially boring topic very engaging.
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- Torrance Abell
- 09-08-19
Flawed, but still worth a read.
A lot of good insight. Author has no understanding of several industries like banking and some aspects of tech as it relates to consumers. It is almost as clueless as Warren. Rather political toward the end of the book, but on the whole, a worthwhile read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-05-21
Read this book before it is banned
This is one of the best books that I have ever read. It is balanced, objective and approachable. It mixes economics, history and sociology seamlessly. The order of the book couldn't be better. it explains the problems and then gives specific examples. the summary gives practical short term and long term solutions.
This book doesn't just point fingers and divide people. Individual responsibility and personal choices are included in explanations of cause and effect.
This book could save America by bringing the left and right together around common goals. The by-product of following the suggestions made in this book would be a fairer country where innovators are rewarded and small businesses thrive.
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- Amazon Customer
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eye opening To current state of America
we need to vote in people that are going to enforce antitrust laws. as a wage earner we all are at a wealth disadvantage. we the people are paying for the greed of a few.
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- Chad Kremmer
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informative
loved this book...great for anyone with business interests. I'm gonna go buy a hard copy now.
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- jerome m.
- 06-25-19
So, It Has Come To This?
So many people will not vote. Corporations will not change willingly. Politicians are owned by the corporations. Time for people to get out the pitchforks?
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- SYL
- 12-04-22
Interesting analysis of Monopoly
Well founded thesis but too many examples of problems and a very few examples of proposed solutions and lack of clear pathway for implementation. Follow up of this writing is shortly needed. An eye opener!
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