As outrage over the socially damaging practices of technology companies intensifies, this book asks what it actually means to hold a 'monopoly' in the tech world and offers an in-depth analysis of how these corporate giants are produced, ...
This book deals with the Social Monopolies: patents, copyrights, etc.; Special privilege monopolies: those based on public and private favoritism and the Natural Monopolies: those arising form a limited supply...
The stated purpose of antitrust laws is to protect competition and the public interest. But do such laws actually restrict the competitive process, harming consumers and serving the special interests...
It is not surprising, therefore, that this volume is the third edited publication dedicated specifically to scholarship into rent-seeking behavior. The theory of rent-seeking bridges normative and positive analyses of state action.
This is an essential work for anyone wishing to understand the limitations and problems of contemporary antitrust actions.
This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought, a hugely influential book that continues to shape our understanding of modern capitalism. “This book… deals with a vital area of ...
This new edition of his essential work, The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism, is a clear and accessible explication of this outlook, brought up to the present, and incorporating an analysis of recently discovered “lost” chapters from ...
James M. Cypher, “The Basic Economics of Rearming America,” Monthly Review 33, no. ... John Weeks, “The Differences Between Materialist Theory and Dependency Theory and Why They Matter,” in Ronald H. Chilcote, ed., Dependency and ...
Chamberlain's classic work, now in its eighth edition, continues to influence the fundamental thinking of economists and businessmen, and for the best of reasons: It is a basic treatise in...
If a proper distinction is made between productive and unproductive workers, the former producing surplus and the latter living offit, it will be seen, I am certain, that the surplus of the American economy is vastly greater than ...