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The Counterbalance: Nick Shaxson – The quadruple tax system of patent monopolies

July 7, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a very long, but enjoyable to read article covering a lot of terrain concerning monopolies, tax, intellectual property, the free trade myth, and TRIPS. The perfect weekend read. Counterbalance is a newsletter from […]

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The Counterbalance – Stakeholder capitalism’s blind spot: monopoly power

May 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Environmental, Social, and Governance investors must identify the actual elephant in the room Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance […]

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The Counterbalance – Where telecoms meet monopoly

April 12, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Vodafone is on an international mergers and buying spree, which is likely to hurt a lot of hard-pressed people who already face a severe cost of living crisis following the pandemic and Russia’s botched and […]

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The Counterbalance – The UK is breaking up Facebook / Meta and (almost) nobody noticed

January 12, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a big deal, and a very good thing Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance click Here Frances […]

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The Counterbalance – How finance drives monopoly: Private Equity

November 19, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the first part of a series about how finance concentrates economic power. By Nicholas Shaxson Subscribe to The Counterbalance now Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International In July Darren Jones, the […]

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The Counterbalance – Ioannis Lianos: Taking on vested interests in Greece

September 29, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ioannis Lianos, head of the Hellenic Competition Commission since November 2019,  whose office mounted dawn raids against Greece’s biggest banks.  And that were just the start. Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, […]

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The Counterbalance – Competitiveness Against Competition

August 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

. . . and why national competitiveness reduces competition Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. This interview was conducted by Nick Shaxson. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe […]

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The Counterbalance: Jan Eeckhout – The Profit Paradox

June 24, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Monopolies are mainly associated with the United States. And in Europe? Jan Eeckhout is the ICREA Research Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced […]

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The Counterbalance – Small businesses versus the platforms

May 19, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

How markets get corrupted, and nobody seems to want to clean them up Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project Cross-posted from Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance click […]

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The Counterbalance – How supermarket chains squash their suppliers . . . and how to stop them

May 18, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The remarkable power that supermarkets exert over their suppliers. Mainstream thinking about monopolies and market power minimises such issues, reducing them to questions of “consumer welfare” and the economic efficiency of corporations.  The harder supermarkets […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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