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With today's political debates over the role of Big Tech and other dominant companies, Monopoly Politics provides an account of how policy and politics towards competition and monopoly has evolved in the 20th century. Based on extensive archival evidence, the book shows how policymakers in the United States and France implemented policy to favor or undermine monopolies, and how later generations of policymakers would push those policies further or reverse them. Telling the story of past times when governments turned in favor of or against monopolies, the book indicates possible ways forward as…mehr

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With today's political debates over the role of Big Tech and other dominant companies, Monopoly Politics provides an account of how policy and politics towards competition and monopoly has evolved in the 20th century. Based on extensive archival evidence, the book shows how policymakers in the United States and France implemented policy to favor or undermine monopolies, and how later generations of policymakers would push those policies further or reverse them. Telling the story of past times when governments turned in favor of or against monopolies, the book indicates possible ways forward as these issues are debated today in the United States and Europe.
Autorenporträt
Erik Peinert is an assistant professor of Political Science at Boston University. His research focuses on the political economy of advanced industrial states and the politics of economic policymaking. Prior to Boston University, he was a research manager at the American Economic Liberties Project, and he has had had research affiliations with the Rhodes Center for International Finance at Brown University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po in Paris, and the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Peinert earned his PhD in political science at Brown University.