Verfasst von:	Dayen, David [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	Monopolized
Titelzusatz:	life in the age of corporate power
Verf.angabe:	David Dayen
Verlagsort:	New York ; London
Verlag:	The New Press
E-Jahr:	2020
Jahr:	[2020]
Umfang:	313 Seiten
Illustrationen:	Illustrationen
Fussnoten:	Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:	978-1-62097-541-1
Abstract:	Monopolies are why people keep contracting deep vein thrombosis on long-haul flights -- Monopolies are why a farmer's daughter is crying behind the desk of a best western -- Monopolies are why hundreds of journalists became filmmakers, then back to writers, then unemployed -- Monopolies are why students sit in Starbucks parking lots at night to do their homework -- Monopolies are why teamsters stormed a podium to tell one another about their dead friends and relatives -- Monopolies among banks are why there are monopolies among every other economic sector -- Monopolies are why America can't build or run a single weapons system without assistance from China -- Monopolies are why a small business owner and his girlfriend had to get permission from Amazon to live together -- Monopolies are why hospitals can give patients prosthetic limbs and artificial hearts but not salt and water in a bag -- Monopolies are why a woman found her own home listed for rent on zillow -- Monopolies are why a family has only seen the top of their loved ones' head for the past two years -- Monopolies are why I traveled to Chicago and Tel Aviv to learn how to stop.
	"From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives."
URL:	Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/1689345950.pdf
Schlagwörter:	(s)Marktmacht / (s)Soziale Funktion
Sprache:	eng
K10plus-PPN:	1689345950