Increasingly, monopoly power is distorting our economies and political systems.
Our latest edition of The Counterbalance looks at the rich and troubling history of "intellectual property" protections, and how the current system is in effect a way for dominant firms to use their power to levy private taxes on the…
Monopoly - by which we mean excessive concentration of corporate and financial power - is a common feature across most issues that ordinary people care about: political polarisation, inequality, the environment, tax and trade, fake news, economic resilience, workers’ rights…