Download or read book Concentration and Power in the Food System written by Philip H. Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every day brings news of another merger or acquisition involving the companies that control our food supply. Just how concentrated has this system become? At almost every key stage of the food system, four firms alone control 40% or more of the market, a level above which these companies have the power to drive up prices for consumers and reduce their rate of innovation. Researchers have identified additional problems resulting from these trends, including negative impacts on the environment, human health, and communities. This book reveals the dominant corporations, from the supermarket to the seed industry, and the extent of their control over markets. It also analyzes the strategies these firms are using to reshape society in order to further increase their power, particularly in terms of their bearing upon the more vulnerable sections of society, such as recent immigrants, ethnic minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status. Yet this study also shows that these trends are not inevitable. Opposed by numerous efforts, from microbreweries to seed saving networks, it explores how such opposition has encouraged the most powerful firms to make small but positive changes.
Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power written by United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Concentration Structure Behavior and Public Policy written by John Malcolm Blair and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1972 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a veteran of both the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Commission and the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly during the 1960s, author Blair is an advocate. His advocacy of his position is clear, concise, and understandable: he favors strong antitrust laws and the stricter application of those laws to existing corporate structures, and this is his argument. First, it defines and discusses four types of economic concentration-market, vertical, conglomerate, and aggregate. Second, high concentration (as opposed to diffusion of control) is shown to be neither the necessary nor the "natural" state of the economy because "centrifugal" forces (eventual diseconomies of scale, growth, and technological change) constantly are chipping away at dominance and ossification. Third, it argues that the primary causes of high and rising concentration of various kinds are neither natural nor technological imperatives (economies of scale, technological change): rather, they are artificial and unnecessary "centripetal" factors, the most important being mergers, acquisitions, TV advertising, predation, and anticompetitive government policies of various kinds. The result, therefore, is a work rich in empirical information and skillful in interpreting and verifying new data and statistical approaches; moreover, it integrates a substantial quantity of data never attempted in this area in the past. In this sense it is an excellent contribution. No topic considered has been shortchanged, the treatment is competent. But the effort to cover the entire waterfront leaves several urgent questions: What can be done and where? How may we attempt new approaches to our subject? How may we first better convince the general public and Congress that, indeed, a strong antitrust policy is desirable?
Download or read book The Great Reversal written by Thomas Philippon and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on competition. Thomas Philippon blames the unchecked efforts of corporate lobbyists. Instead of earning profits by investing and innovating, powerful firms use political pressure to secure their advantages. The result is less efficient markets, leading to higher prices and lower wages.
Download or read book Economic Concentration and the Monopoly Problem written by Edward Sagendorph Mason and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Concentration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concentration and Price cost Margins in Manufacturing Industries written by Norman R. Collins and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Concentration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mergers and economic concentration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power written by United States. Temporary National Income Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power written by United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power written by United States. Temporary National Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 18489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of investigation of economic concentration in industry and commerce; pt. 5A: Contains FTC report on industry monopolistic practices; pt. 15A Contains report on marketing practices in the retail distribution of motor fuel and motor lubricant products; pt. 17A: Contains replies of oil companies to the committee questionnaire on financial data and related topics.
Download or read book Industrial Concentration and Economic Power in Pakistan written by Lawrence J. White and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although observers of the Pakistani economy are well aware that a small number of family groups, popularly called "the twenty-two families," dominates the industrial structure of the country, the actual effects of this concentration of economic power on income distribution and on other areas of widespread social and political concern arc less well understood. In this important work, Lawrence J. White uses the concepts of industrial organization analysis to achieve an overall view of the problems stemming from the marked industrial concentration in Pakistan. After discussing the economic effects of industrial concentration as they apply generally to less developed countries, Professor White reviews the Pakistani experience, estimating the overall concentration of power that exists in manufacturing, banking, and insurance. Following an estimate of the extent of concentration in individual markets, he examines the origins of this concentration of power and analyzes its economic and noneconomic effects in Pakistan. The author concludes with a review of the policies that Pakistan has pursued in dealing with industrial concentration and suggests new courses of action for the future. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power written by United States. Temporary National Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Concentration written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book United States Versus Economic Concentration and Monopoly written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
