Economic concentration opens path to dictatorships
Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2018 4:57 pm
Good opinion piece from Tim Wu. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/10/opi ... opoly.html
We need to figure out how the classic antidote to bigness — the antitrust and other antimonopoly laws — might be recovered and updated to address the specific challenges of our time. For a start, Congress should pass a new Anti-Merger Act reasserting that it meant what it said in 1950, and create new levels of scrutiny for mega-mergers like the proposed union of T-Mobile and Sprint.