Far too much of America’s energy is being drained today in frenzied attempts to prop up bigness. The housing crisis, the financial meltdown, the teetering of the Big Three automakers. The unifying ...

We Americans are just too darned sophisticated. We've been to too many places, we've seen too much. You can't excite us anymore. Tell us the world population is about 6 1/3 billion, and we yawn. Tell ...

A decade ago, pundits were beating the drum about “bigness,” saying things like: “You need to get bigger.” “You need to have scale.” “You need local market dominance to matter.” Similarly, healthcare ...

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, Tim Wu, Columbia Global Reports, 154 pages A new class of monopolists has arisen and a second gilded age is upon us. So argues Tim Wu, a ...

In this short but persuasive book, Wu (The Attention Merchants), a Columbia law professor, connects the current political climate to a decline in antitrust enforcement. From the rise of U.S. Steel and ...

Earlier this week, the Treasury Department published a report discussing the relationship between “the trend of corporate consolidation” and “workers receiving less pay, fewer benefits, and worse ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ever since Louis Brandeis’s famed jeremiads of 1912 and 1913, there has been a kind of moral awareness ...