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

Author: Michelle Meagher

Narrator: Shaheen Khan

Unabridged: 6 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 09/10/2020


Synopsis

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We live in the age of big companies where rising levels of power are concentrated in the hands of a few. Yet no government or organisation has the power to regulate these titans and hold them to account. We need big companies to share their power and we, the people of the world, need to reclaim it.

In Competition is Killing Us, top business and competition lawyer Michelle Meagher establishes a new framework to control capitalism from the inside in order to make it work for the many and not just the few.

Meagher has spent years campaigning against these multi-billion and trillion dollar mammoths that dominate the market and prioritise shareholder profits over all else; leading to extreme wealth inequality, inhumane conditions for workers and relentless pressure on the environment.

In this revolutionary book, she introduces her wholly-achievable alternative; a fair and comprehensive competition law that limits unfair mergers, enforces accountability and redistributes power through stakeholder governance.

With an afterword by Simon Holmes, Member of the UK 's Competition Appeal Tribunal, Academic Visitor at the Centre for Competition Law and Policy, Oxford University.

© Michelle Meagher 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim on December 17, 2020

Of the increasing wave of anti-capitalism, pro-antitrust, books hitting the market (and that I expect will increase with the wave of anti-trust sentiment that seems de rigeur at this time), I found this one easily digestible, with enough history of corporate law in US and Europe to give some interes......more

Goodreads review by Jade on January 08, 2023

Infuriating, thorough and utterly informative. As a total leftist, I was unduly surprised to hear how counter to democracy lots of these ideas are given the historicity of neoliberalism! Michelle Meagher is a thinker to be followed!! Lost a star because it does get hard to follow sometimes and might......more

Goodreads review by Ashraf on February 28, 2024

Competition is Killing Us: A Critique of the Free Market Narrative Michelle Meagher's book challenges the traditional understanding of competition and free markets. A. Debunking Myths: Meagher, a lawyer specializing in competition law, argues that the current economic system is not as competitive as......more

Goodreads review by Richard on November 18, 2020

Fun to read and well researched. There are clear criticisms and an original proposal. You don't have to fully agree (I don't) to enjoy it.......more

Goodreads review by Omer Kukul on December 29, 2020

Although the idea behind this book is quite interesting, the language writer uses makes it very hard to follow. Book contains many repetitions, this makes it hard to focus and enjoy.......more


Quotes

This is a rallying call for change! Michelle adds her voice to the many that are demanding accountability from our global companies and offers a passionately-articulated solution. A fascinating read! Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%

A trenchant and thought-provoking analysis of modern capitalism. Far from serving us, it is causing us all harm. What's more, Meagher has a positive agenda for reform that will force big businesses to take responsibility for a system stumbling from crisis to crisis and to start addressing the global problems they have helped cause Professor Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge

A book arguing passionately for genuine stakeholder capitalism might have seemed Utopian before Covid-19, now it is a must-read as Britain debates the world it wants to create post the pandemic. The case Meagher makes could not be more timely or relevant Will Hutton, author of The State We're In

Eloquent, accessible and massively well-informed... Competition is Killing Us should be required reading for every anti-trust lawyer, every fund manager and every executive board in the land. It does the rest of us a huge service, not only in busting the myths that sustain corporate exceptionalism, but in signposting the path towards a genuine and transformative model of stakeholder governance. Tim Jackson, Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity at The University of Surrey and author of Prosperity Without Growth