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BBC: NHS overcharged by millions for key drug, says watchdog

November 21, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The British authroities said that last year the NHS spent £34m on its drug, liothyronine made by the drug company Concordia, up from about £600,000 in 2006.The amount the NHS paid per pack rose from […]

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Norbert Häring – How does Germany’s Monopolies Commission combat market concentration? By making sure that no good data is available

November 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Norbert Häring has wirtten an excellent piece of how Germany avoids regulating monopolies. Although in other areas the German government is staunchly ordo-liberal, with regards to monopolies it has abaondoned these principles. Norbert Häring is […]

Finance

Open Markets Institute Calls on the Federal Trade Commission to Block All Facebook Acquisitions

November 8, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article deals with the situation in the USA, but Facebook’s is just as ubiquitous and dominant in Europe. The newly formed Open Markets Institute is one of the most important organisations challenging monopolies and […]

Finance

Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller: How to stop Google and Facebook from becoming even more powerful

November 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

“We at the Open Markets Institute recently called on the FTC to put a hold on all future mergers and acquisitions by Facebook – and potentially Google and Amazon…such a ban would help provide the […]

Finance

Nick Dearden: If Labour wants to save the NHS, it needs to cut out Big Pharma

October 31, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Giant drug companies – ‘Big Pharma’ – have become the ultimate symbol of  a broken corporate model. They live off monopolies on medicines discovered many years ago, extending those monopolies by making tiny changes to […]

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Politico: Inside the new battle against Google

September 21, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The firing of the anti-monopolist Barry Lynn at the behest of Google has brought the topic of tech monopolies into  the political limelight in the US. This is a long read, but provides an insight […]

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Barry Lynn – Google, critics, and freedom of speech

September 17, 2017 Bob Schulze 0

From The Guardian The case of Barry Lynn: Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: ‘People are waking up to its power’ To the article

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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, and Aaron Vansintjan

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Book Review by Timothèe Parrique This book review originally appeared on Timothée Parrique’s blog The best the degrowth literature has to offer served on a silver platter. That’s how I would describe The Future is Degrowth: […]

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