Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power

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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Monopolies Are Why People Keep Contracting Deep Vein Thrombosis on Long-Haul Flights
Chapter 2: Monopolies Are Why a Farmer’s Daughter Is Crying Behind the Desk of a Best Western
Chapter 3: Monopolies Are Why Hundreds of Journalists Became Filmmakers, then Back to Writers, then Unemployed
Chapter 4: Monopolies Are Why Students Sit in Starbucks Parking Lots at Night to Do Their Homework
Chapter 5: Monopolies Are Why Teamsters Stormed a Podium to Tell One Another About Their Dead Friends and Relatives
Chapter 6: Monopolies Among Banks Are Why There Are Monopolies Among Every Other Economic Sector
Chapter 7: Monopolies Are Why America Can’t Build or Run a Single Weapons System Without Assistance from China
Chapter 8: Monopolies Are Why a Small Business Owner and His Girlfriend Had to Get Permission from Amazon to Live Together
Chapter 9: Monopolies Are Why Hospitals Can Give Patients Prosthetic Limbs and Artificial Hearts but Not Salt and Water in a Bag
Chapter 10: Monopolies Are Why a Woman Found Her Own Home Listed for Rent on Zillow
Chapter 11: Monopolies Are Why a Family Has Seen Only the Top of Their Loved One’s Head for the Past Two Years
Chapter 12: Monopolies Are Why I Traveled to Chicago and Tel Aviv to Learn How to Stop Them
Acknowledgments
Notes
Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources
Cover