Abstract
Abstract. Minnesota’s Senator Amy Klobuchar takes up educating the American public on competition policy in her book Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age. Concerns regarding undue market power in the Tech Sector run across the political aisle, and there are multiple cases under review in the United States against: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
Keywords. Monopoly Power, Gilded Age, Digital Age.
JEL. A13, C70, D11.References
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