From the airlines we fly to the food we eat, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate every aspect of our lives—by one of our most intrepid and accomplished journalists
"If you're looking for a book . . . that will get your heart pumping and your blood boiling and that will remind you why we're in these fights—add this one to your list." —Senator Elizabeth Warren on David Dayen's Chain of Title
Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service we secure comes from a heavily concentrated market.
This is a world where four major banks control most of our money, four airlines shuttle most of us around the country, and four major cell phone providers connect most of our communications. If you are sick you can go to one of three main pharmacies to fill your prescription, and if you end up in a hospital almost every accessory to heal you comes from one of a handful of large medical suppliers.
Dayen, the editor of the American Prospect and author of the acclaimed Chain of Title, provides a riveting account of what it means to live in this new age of monopoly and how we might resist this corporate hegemony.
Through vignettes and vivid case studies Dayen shows how these monopolies have transformed us, inverted us, and truly changed our lives, at the same time providing readers with the raw material to make monopoly a consequential issue in American life and revive a long-dormant antitrust movement.
Industry Reviews
Praise for Monopolized:
“A cutting damnation of the monopolization of the international marketplace for‚ well‚ pretty much everything. . . . The author digs deep into the problem‚ chronicling his travels around the U.S. to see not only the macro effects of monopolies‚ but their very real impacts on real people. . . . A powerful‚ necessary call to arms to strengthen the antitrust movement and fight a system whose goal is complete control.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Praise for David Dayen's Chain of Title:
Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and The Week
"Gripping. . . . Prepare to be surprised, and angry. . . . The homeowners’ stories are emotional roller coasters. Dayen skillfully narrates a slow reveal and sprinkles in some lively metaphors."
—The New York Times Book Review
"An inspiring, well-rendered, deeply reported, and often infuriating account."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Dayen elevates a muckraking exposé of fraudulent foreclosures to Hitchcockian levels of suspense. . . . Meticulously researched, enthralling, and educational, this addition to the literature of the Great Recession calls out for its own big-screen adaptation."
—Publishers Weekly
