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Antimonopoly and American Democracy traces the history of antimonopoly politics in the United States, arguing that organized action against concentrated economic power comprises an important American democratic tradition. From the pre-revolutionary era to the age of Big Tech, the volume explores the effects that historical monopolies have had on democracy by using their wealth and influence to dominate electoral politics and regulation. Chapters also highlight a range of sites of economic concentration, from land ownership to media reach, and attempts at combating them, from labor organizing to constitutional revision.…mehr

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Antimonopoly and American Democracy traces the history of antimonopoly politics in the United States, arguing that organized action against concentrated economic power comprises an important American democratic tradition. From the pre-revolutionary era to the age of Big Tech, the volume explores the effects that historical monopolies have had on democracy by using their wealth and influence to dominate electoral politics and regulation. Chapters also highlight a range of sites of economic concentration, from land ownership to media reach, and attempts at combating them, from labor organizing to constitutional revision.
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Daniel A. Crane is the Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He served as the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research from 2013 to 2016. Crane's work has appeared in the University of Chicago Law Review, the California Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Cornell Law Review, among other journals. He is the author of several books on antitrust law, including Antitrust (Aspen, 2014), The Making of Competition Policy: Legal and Economic Sources (Oxford University Press, 2013), and The Institutional Structure of Antitrust Enforcement (Oxford University Press, 2011). William J. Novak is the Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is an award-winning legal scholar and historian, and is the author of The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) and New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State (Harvard University Press, 2022). He is also the co-editor of The Democratic Experiment (Princeton University Press, 2003), The State in U.S. History (University of Chicago Press, 2015), and The Corporation and American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2017).