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Turning the Earth into Money w/ John Bellamy Foster

A World to Win with Grace Blakeley

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The Relationship Between Monopoly and Capitalism

In two thousand and 11, i did an empirical study with a rgimil jonah and a robert mc chesney. We published as a, i think it was monopoly in competition in 20 first century capitalism. And we provided the empirical data showing that concentration had increased in every industry and every major industry in the united states. 35 % of of all gross profits went to the top 200 corporations in the united States. Out of four million firms, 200 were getting 35 to forty per cent of all Gross Profits. This was increasing. But our empirical analysis was so strong that you have paul kruman referring to it in the new york times. So this is a

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