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Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age
Maybe someday
48
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
15/100Critics
34/100Scholars
93/100Author:
Amy Klobuchar
Publisher:
Knopf
Date:
April 27, 2021
Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America todayâand Amy Klobuchar, a senator from Minnesota, is leading the charge. This history of the antitrust movement shows us what led to the present moment and offers achievable solutions to prevent monopolies, promote business competition, and encourage innovation.
What The Reviewers Say
A history of antitrust policy may not sound like the most compelling raw material for a page turner. But the book is an impressive work of scholarship, deeply researched — it has over 200 pages of footnotes — highly informative and surprisingly readable in the bargain.
Klobuchar reviews past monopolies, starting with a certain tea party, and continuing through the Gilded Age and the Sherman Act to current day, providing plenty of social, political, and legislative context.
Antitrust is both a good book and a historic and important one—because Klobuchar, as the chair of the Senate Judicary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, is likely to oversee major changes to antitrust law.
... is at its most readable as Klobuchar frames the issue historically, breezily recounting episodes of American and Minnesota history while occasionally weaving in bits of family and professional experience.
