The bigness complex : industry, labor, and government in the American economy

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The bigness complex : industry, labor, and government in the American economy

Walter Adams, James W. Brock

Stanford University Press, c2004

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Bigness Complex confronts head-on the myth that organizational giantism leads to economic efficiency and well-being in the modern age. On the contrary, it demonstrates how bigness undermines our economic productivity and progress, endangers our democratic freedoms, and exacerbates our economic problems and challenges. This new edition has a thoroughly updated variety of issues, examples, and new developments, including government bailouts of the airline industry; regulation of biotechnology; the fiasco of recent electricity deregulation; and mergers and consolidations in oil, radio, and grocery retailing. The analysis is framed in the timeless context of American distrust of concentrations of power. The authors show how both the left and the right fail to address the central problem of power in formulating their diagnoses and recommendations. The book concludes with an alternative public philosophy as a viable guidepost for public policy toward business in a free-enterprise democracy.

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Contents List of Tables and Charts Preface Part I The Problem of Power 1. Power and Public Policy 2. Economists and Power Part II The Apologetics of Power 3. Operating Efficiency 4. Innovation Efficiency 5. Social Efficiency Part III The Political Economy of Power: A Historical Perspective 6. The Revolution of 1776: American Government 7. The Revolution of 1776: British Economic Policy Part IV Competition and the Control of Power 8. The Role of Antitrust 9. Cartels 10. Monopoly 11. The Merger Problem 12. Horizontal Mergers and Joint Ventures 13. Vertical Mergers 14. Conglomerate Mergers 15. The Limitations of Antitrust Part V Government Intervention and Private Power 16. The Regulation of Power 17. Airline Regulation 18. The Limits of Deregulation 19. The Protection of Power 20. The Bailout of Power Part VI The Coalescence of Power 21. The Labor-Industrial Complex 22. The "Sports-Industrial" Complex Part VII Public Policy Alternatives 23. The Neo-Darwinist Vision 24. The Neo-Liberal Vision 25. A Public Philosophy Notes Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Big business United States, Industrial concentration United States, Industries Size United States, Industrial efficiency United States, Competition United States, Trade regulation United States

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