Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Amy Klobuchar
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Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Amy Klobuchar
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
A history of antitrust policy may not sound like the most compelling raw material for a page turner. But the book is an impressive work of scholarship, deeply researched — it has over 200 pages of footnotes — highly informative and surprisingly readable in the bargain.
Klobuchar reviews past monopolies, starting with a certain tea party, and continuing through the Gilded Age and the Sherman Act to current day, providing plenty of social, political, and legislative context.
Antitrust is both a good book and a historic and important one—because Klobuchar, as the chair of the Senate Judicary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, is likely to oversee major changes to antitrust law.
... is at its most readable as Klobuchar frames the issue historically, breezily recounting episodes of American and Minnesota history while occasionally weaving in bits of family and professional experience.
... a serious and important contribution that will help build momentum for reform.
Readers may already recognize the Amy Klobuchar we saw on the 2020 presidential campaign trail: smart, well-informed, and ready to tell you why she is the woman for the job. In fact, parts of the book that address our contemporary economy read like a briefing book.
... surprisingly engaging and accessible, despite its dense, complicated topic. She presents the human impact of antitrust issues.
... both a diligently researched history lesson and a well thought out plan, meticulously delineated.
... [an] expansive history and wonky call to action.