Essential Reading
Michael Tomasky, The Middle Out. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022
Rana Foroohar, Homecoming. Penguin Random House, 2022.
Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance. Henry Holt, 2014.
Gerald Berk, Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900–1932. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Louis Brandeis. Other People’s Money and How the Bankers Use It (1914). Bedford Books, 1995.
David Dayen, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. The New Press, 2020.
Franklin Foer, World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech. Penguin, 2018.
Rana Foroohar, Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street. Currency-Random House, 2017.
Rana Foroohar, Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed its Founding Principles – and All of Us. Currency-Random House, 2019.
Sally Hubbard, Monopolies Suck. Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Richard R. John, Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. Harvard University Press, 2010.
Simon Johnson and James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown. Pantheon, 2010.
John Kwoka, Mergers, Merger Controls, and Remedies. MIT Press, 2014.
Chris Leonard, The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business. Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Chris Leonard, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America. Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Barry C. Lynn, End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation. Doubleday, 2005.
Barry C. Lynn, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction, John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
Barry C. Lynn, Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs the Will of the People. St. Martin’s Press, 2020.
Roger McNamee, Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe. Penguin, 2019.
Stacy Mitchell,Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses. Beacon Press, 2007.
Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information. Harvard University Press, 2015.
Thomas Philippon, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets. Harvard University Press, 2019.
K. Sabeel Rahman, Democracy Against Domination. Oxford University Press, 2017.
Jeffrey Rosen, Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet. Yale University Press, 2016.
Ganesh Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle Class Constitution. Knopf, 2017.
Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Harvard, 2018.
Matt Stoller, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Simon & Schuster, 2019.
Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi, Virtual Competition. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Jonathan Taplin, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Zephyr Teachout, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Zephyr Teachout, Break ‘em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money. St. Martins, 2020.
Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis: A Life. Shocken, 2009.
Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. Columbia Global Reports, 2018.
Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Hachette, 2019.
Suggested further reading
Elizabeth Anderson, Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk About It). Princeton University Press, 2017.
Jonathan Baker, The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy. Harvard University Press, 2019.
Mehrsa Baradaran. The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. Harvard University Press, 2017.
Angus Burgin. The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Depression. Harvard University Press, 2012.
David Callahan. The Givers: Money, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Knopf, 2017.
Jesse Eisinger, The Chickenshit Club. Simon and Schuster, 2017.
Harold Feld, The Case for the Digital Platform Act. 2019.
Charles Fishman, The Wal-Mart Effect. Penguin, 2006.
Andrew Gavil and Harry First, The Microsoft Antitrust Cases. MIT Press, 2014.
Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Knopf, 2018.
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Politics at Work: How Companies Turn Their Workers Into Lobbyists. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Crown, 2016.
Rudolph Peritz. Competition Policy in America 1888-1892: History, Rhetoric, Law. Oxford University Press, 1996.
Victor Pickard, America’s Battle for Media Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology. Belknap Press, 2020.
Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society. Princeton, 2018.
Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism. Vintage Books-Penguin Random House, 2015.
Richard Rothstein. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Liveright, 2017.
Chris Sagers, United States v. Apple. Harvard University Press, 2019.
Laura Phillips Sawyer, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890–1940. Cambridge, 2018.
Gene Sperling, Economic Dignity. Penguin, 2020.
Joseph Stiglitz, People, Power, and Profits. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019.
Brad Stone, The Everything Store. Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
Maurice Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi, Competition Overdose. Harper Business, 2020.
Jonathan Tepper and Denise Hearn, The Myth of Capitalism. Wiley, 2018.
Siva Vaidhyanathan, Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Amy Webb, The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity. Hachette, 2019.
Timothy Wise, Eating Tomorrow. The New Press, 2019.