Can Competition Law Call Out the Monopoly's New Clothes?
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Dear Reader, Future historians may someday describe the times we live in as the ‘age of the monopoly’. At a time when essential global vaccine rollouts have resulted in a once-in-an-epoch economic windfall for a single private pharmaceutical player, we seem to have reached the logical outcome of a decades-long neoliberal offensive. Corporations are bigger and more powerful than ever, exercising totalizing control over the economy, society, and polity alike. This coup d'etat entails the privatization of strategic economic sectors, public services, and resources of various countries by a handful of corporations.
Can Competition Law Call Out the Monopoly's New Clothes?
Can Competition Law Call Out the Monopoly's…
Can Competition Law Call Out the Monopoly's New Clothes?
Dear Reader, Future historians may someday describe the times we live in as the ‘age of the monopoly’. At a time when essential global vaccine rollouts have resulted in a once-in-an-epoch economic windfall for a single private pharmaceutical player, we seem to have reached the logical outcome of a decades-long neoliberal offensive. Corporations are bigger and more powerful than ever, exercising totalizing control over the economy, society, and polity alike. This coup d'etat entails the privatization of strategic economic sectors, public services, and resources of various countries by a handful of corporations.