Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It

Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It

by Michelle Meagher

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Overview

We live in the age of big companies where multi-billion and trillion dollar mammoths dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else.

This leads to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these companies and hold them to account.

In Competition is Killing Us, lawyer and campaigner Michelle Meagher, establishes a new framework to control capitalism, presenting a fair and comprehensive approach to competition law that limits unfair mergers, enforces accountability and redistributes power through stakeholder governance. By debunking six myths about the free market, Meagher shows how corporate capitalism concentrates power at the cost of people and planet, and shares a new vision for anti-trust for the 21st century.

It's time capitalism worked for the many and not just the few.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780241423011
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Publication date: 12/10/2020
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Michelle Meagher is a Senior Policy Fellow at the University College London Centre for Law, Economics and Society and co-founder of the Inclusive Competition Forum, a think tank focused on democratising corporate power and the enforcement of competition law. Michelle is a UK and US-qualified lawyer, specialising in competition law and corporate governance. Michelle sits on the corporate governance committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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