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Americans today worry about concentrated power in private industry to an extent not seen in generations. Not only do they find diminished diversity of service-providers and producers, but they are disquieted by the power of a few large companies to shape and constrain democratic processes. Americans across the political spectrum, from former President Donald Trump to Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, have sounded alarms about the overlarge power of business in both public and private life. While many of the technologies and industries that worry Americans are new, the concerns they've raised are not unprecedented.
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. While prevailing narratives tend to treat monopoly as a risk to people mainly in their roles as consumers--by causing prices to increase, for example--this study broadens the conversation, recounting ways in which monopolism can hurt ordinary people without directly impacting their wallets. From the pre-revolutionary era to the age of Big Tech, the volume explores the effects that historical monopolies have had on democracy by using their wealth and influence to dominate electoral politics and regulation. Chapters also highlight a range of sites of economic concentration, from land ownership to media reach, and attempts at combating them, from labor organizing to constitutional revision. Featuring original scholarship from some of the world's leading experts in American economic, political, and legal history, Antimonopoly and American Democracy offers important lessons for our contemporary political moment, in which fears of concentrated wealth and influence are again on the rise.
Contents
PART ONE: THE LONG HISTORY OF ANTIMONOPOLY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
I. Introduction: Democracy and the American Antimonopoly Tradition
Daniel Crane and William J. Novak
II. Rethinking the Monopoly Question: Commerce, Land, Industry
Richard R. John
III. From Antimonopoly to Antitrust
Richard White
PART TWO: RETHINKING THE PROGRESSIVE AND NEW DEAL ANTIMONOPOLY TRADITIONS
IV. Antimonopoly and State Regulation of Corporations in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
V. America Antimonopoly and the Rise of Regulated Industries Law
William J. Novak
VI. Banking and the Antimonopoly Tradition: The Long Road to the Bank Holding Company Act
Jamie Grischkan
PART THREE: REMAKING ANTIMONOPOLY IN A NEW GLOBAL AGE
VII. De-Nazifying by De-Cartelizing: The Legacy of the American Decartelization Project in Germany
Daniel Crane
VIII. Jurisdiction Beyond Our Borders: United States v. Alcoa and the Extraterritorial Reach of American Antitrust, 1909-1945
Laura Phillips Sawyer
IX. From Market Power to State Capture: The Fateful Shift in Postwar Antimonopoly
James T. Sparrow
PART FOUR: ANTIMONOPOLY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: SELECT CASE STUDIES
X. Antitrust and the Corporate Tax, 1909-1928
Reuven Avi-Yonah
XI. Beyond the Labor Exemption: Labor's Antimonopoly Vision and the Fight for Greater Democracy
Kate Andrias
XII. Antimonopoly in the Media Industries: A History
Sam Lebovic
