Thanks for reviewing the Economics of each of these movements. The greater public needs this education too. Small businesses are at risk of closures, the whole economy affected. People sometimes listen to numbers, percentages weaved into examples. It's an attention-getter and increases credibility of a story. So much at stake. …
Thanks for reviewing the Economics of each of these movements. The greater public needs this education too. Small businesses are at risk of closures, the whole economy affected. People sometimes listen to numbers, percentages weaved into examples. It's an attention-getter and increases credibility of a story. So much at stake. I wish this could be amplified (Department of Labor? Secretary Gina -- she is a sharp, excellent Cabinet member) to the general public too. Thanks for plainspeaking the Econ part.
Yes, these are excellent questions and concerns that you are asking and Steve is bringing up with the rise of oligopolies. And as oligopolies rise even further they become even more inefficient with continually expanding over-pricing, under-producing, deadweight losses...............mergers.........more mergers.............monopolies that are not natural monopolies.......and so on...
Amy Klobuchar has written a wonderful book entitled "Antitrust taking on the monopoly power from the gilded age to the digital age."
Thanks for reviewing the Economics of each of these movements. The greater public needs this education too. Small businesses are at risk of closures, the whole economy affected. People sometimes listen to numbers, percentages weaved into examples. It's an attention-getter and increases credibility of a story. So much at stake. I wish this could be amplified (Department of Labor? Secretary Gina -- she is a sharp, excellent Cabinet member) to the general public too. Thanks for plainspeaking the Econ part.
Yes, these are excellent questions and concerns that you are asking and Steve is bringing up with the rise of oligopolies. And as oligopolies rise even further they become even more inefficient with continually expanding over-pricing, under-producing, deadweight losses...............mergers.........more mergers.............monopolies that are not natural monopolies.......and so on...
Amy Klobuchar has written a wonderful book entitled "Antitrust taking on the monopoly power from the gilded age to the digital age."
Here is Amy discussing her important book below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QICEatWBzn8
Jon Tepper and Denise Hearn lament at the US not using the Clayton and Sherman anti trust acts in their book.
https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Capitalism-Monopolies-Death-Competition/dp/1119548195