Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
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- Apr 9, 2019
- #Economics #Business
An against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.
We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communitie...
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Number of Pages: 272
ISBN: 1250110548
ISBN-13: 9781250110541
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Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart
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Aug 14, 2021
Tyler Cowen bites many bullets in this book, arguing that big businesses are more efficient than small ones, that they're no less trustworthy than people (and—credit to Mitt Romney—they are made out of people). The book is a good intuition pump; it doesn't suggest that we should have policy preferences in favor of big companies, but does show that there are important tradeoffs in making the biggest companies smaller.