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Taken Not Earned exposes how the world’s biggest companies, and the world’s richest people, all have a dirty secret: monopoly power. It also publishes brand new global research and data on markups (the gaps between prices and costs) and on lobbying in the EU and United States. It also points to new research published today on how top regulators have failed to tackle rising corporate concentration
https://www.balancedeconomy.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Davos-Taken-not-Earned-full-Report-2024-FINAL.pdf
#monopoly #economics #WealthExtraction #justice
Jan 17, 2024 at 6:26amWeb
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From the introduction: "...a handful of individuals and their companies have built positions of market and strategic dominance where they've become too big
to fail, too big to trust, and ‘too big to care’. They have accumulated so much strategic power that they make decisions that deeply affect the lives of all of us."