I. Monopoly Power and COVID-19
- Kulish, Sarah Kliff & Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The U.S. Tried to Build a New Fleet of Ventilators. The Mission Failed., N.Y. Times (Mar. 29, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/business/coronavirus-us-ventilator-shortage.html
- Matt Phillips, Investors Bet Giant Companies Will Dominate After Crisis, N.Y. Times (Apr. 28, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/business/coronavirus-stocks.html
- Emily Flitter & Stacy Cowley, Banks Gave Richest Clients ‘Concierge Treatment’ for Pandemic Aid, N.Y. Times (Apr. 22, 2020), https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/business/sba-loans-ppp-coronavirus.html
- Renee Dudley, The Amazon Lockdown: How an Unforgiving Algorithm Drives Suppliers to Favor the E-Commerce Giant Over Other Retailers, ProPublica (Apr. 26, 2020), https://www.propublica.org/article/the-amazon-lockdown-how-an-unforgiving- algorithm-drives-suppliers-to-favor-the-e-commerce-giant-over-other-retailers
Excerpt: Read the first nine paragraphs
- Claire Kelloway, Why Are Farmers Destroying Food While Grocery Stores Are Empty?, Wash Monthly (Apr. 28, 2020), https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/04/28/why-are-farmers-destroying-food-while- grocery-stores-are-empty
II. A Monopoly Power Overview
- Monopoly by the Numbers, Open Markets Institute, https://openmarketsinstitute.org/explainer/monopoly-by-the-numbers (visited May 27, 2020)
- America’s Concentration Crisis: An Open Markets Institute Report, Open Markets Institute, https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org (June 2019)
- Patrick Foulis, Competition: Trust-Busting in the Twenty-First Century, The Economist (Nov. 15, 2018), https://www.economist.com/special- report/2018/11/15/across-the-west-powerful-firms-are-becoming-even-more-powerful
III. Introduction to Core Anti-Monopoly Themes
- K. Sabeel Rahman, The New Octopus, Logic (Apr. 1, 2018), https://logicmag.io/scale/the-new-octopus
- Tim Wu, The Utah Statement: Reviving Antimonopoly Traditions for the Era of Big Tech, OneZero (Nov. 18, 2019), https://onezero.medium.com/the-utah-statement- reviving-antimonopoly-traditions-for-the-era-of-big-tech-e6be198012d7