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Inventing American Telecommunications

Peoples & Things

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What Do Certain Americans Think About Monopoly?

After this book, you have turned to a big history of anti-monopoly thinking in the US. What did certain Americans think about monopoly in the Enlightenment than several points in the 19th century and then probably right up through the 1950s and 1960s? All three of those movements I don't call it a single tradition, visions, if you will, but presuppose that monopoly is fundamentally a political question. Also going to shift to being a technical issue - government becoming monopolist not corporation. Now you have special privilege admittedly in early republic of land, but there's a shift then that occurs with the rise of corporations.

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