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Lädt ... Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the Peoplevon Barry C. Lynn
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Barry C. Lynn, after a career in journalism, was the director of the Open Markets Program of the ostensibly independent liberal Washington think tank, the New America Foundation. The Program criticized Google. Lynn was fired in 2017. Lynn became a founder of the Open Markets Institute a liberal think tank, which is critical of corporate concentration. Liberty from All Masters, published in 2020, argues that the American business and political elites have destroyed the political institutions that restrained the business elites from predatory behaviour. Lynn, like Timothy Wu, is critical of predatory behaviour in telecommunications, including Internet services. Lynn argues that Americans have traditionally distrusted and resisted the power of wealth and business. In part, he makes a historical argument from the time of American Independence (in the writing of James Madison in the Federalist papers), that the American system government resisted giving the wealthy too much influence in making and enforcing laws affecting their wealth and power. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Barry C. Lynn, one of America's preeminent thinkers, provides the clearest statement yet on the nature and magnitude of the political and economic dangers posed by America's new monopolies in Liberty from All Masters. Americans are obsessed with liberty, mad about liberty. On any day, we can tune into arguments about how much liberty we need to buy a gun or get an abortion, to marry who we want or adopt the gender we feel. We argue endlessly about liberty from regulation and observation by the state, and proudly rebel against the tyranny of course syllabi and Pandora playlists. Redesign the penny today and the motto would read "You ain't the boss of me." Yet Americans are only now awakening to what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century-in the form of an extreme and fast-growing concentration of economic power. Monopolists today control almost every corner of the American economy. The result is not only lower wages and higher prices, hence a concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the few. The result is also a stripping away of our liberty to work how and where we want, to launch and grow the businesses we want, to create the communities and families and lives we want. The rise of online monopolists such as Google and Amazon-designed to gather our most intimate secrets and use them to manipulate our personal and group actions-is making the problem only far worse fast. Not only have these giant corporations captured the ability to manage how we share news and ideas with one another, they increasingly enjoy the power to shape how we move and play and speak and think"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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