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COWLING, Keith George was born in 1936 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
( A manifesto for our times. —Thomas Frank, Wall Street J...)
A manifesto for our times. —Thomas Frank, Wall Street Journal Barry C. Lynn, one of the most original and surprising students of the American economy, paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector of the American economy. Cornered strips the camouflage from the secret world of twenty-first-century monopolies-neofeudalist empires whose sheer size, vast resources, and immense political power enable the people who control to direct virtually every major industry in America in an increasingly authoritarian manner. Lynn reveals how these massive juggernauts, which would have been illegal just thirty years ago, came into being, how they have destroyed or devoured their competition, and how they collude with one another to maintain their power and create the illusion of open, competitive markets. A confluence of small government zealotry and misguided efficient market theories has lead to a complete dismantling of government oversight of industry. Has that brought us the promised economic utopia? Just the opposite. For decades, the dominant elite has used the federal government to all but encourage companies to buy one another up, outsource all their production, and make their profits by leveraging their complete power over the market itself. Lynn makes clear it will take more than a lawsuit or two to overthrow America's corporatist oligarchy and restore a model of capitalism that protects our rights as property holders and citizens, and the independence of our Republic. • Details how regular citizens can join together to beat the great powers, and how to do so by relearning the real history and language of our democratic republic. • Includes stories of real people and real industries that show how monopolies threaten independent businesses, squelch innovation, degrade the quality and safety of products, destabilize vital industrial and financial systems, and destroy the fabric of democracy • Explores monopoly power across a wide array of industries, including appliances, auto parts, beer, eyeglasses, medical supplies, pet food, surfboards, vitamins, and more. • Demonstrates how the drive for ""always lower prices"" makes your job disappear, puts your small business out of business, and turns dreams of entrepreneurial success into impossible fantasies Lynn is that rarest of creatures, a journalist whose theoretical writings are taken very seriously by the top policymakers and economic thinkers in Washington and around the world. His work has been compared already to John Kenneth Galbraith and Peter Drucker. The Washington Post called Lynn's last book-on globalization-""Tom Friedman for grownups."" Cornered is essential reading for anyone who cares about America and its future.
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(an address by G. Edward Griffin. A refutation of the myth...)
an address by G. Edward Griffin. A refutation of the myth that portrays monopoly as the outgrowth of capitalism. In truth, monopolists lobby for laws that give them advantages in the market place. Monopoly is not based on free-enterprise competition, but the escape from it. It is not the product of capitalism but the bedfellow of socialism. 46 min. The true-life adventure of Dr. Wilburn Ferguson, the only white man ever to become an authentic medicine man among the fierce Jivaro Indians (head- hunters) in the jungles of Ecuador and Peru. This is the man whose life inspired the Hollywood movie, Medicine Man, starring Sean Connery. Dr Ferguson tells of the discovery of herbal medicines that could benefit mankind and of the ultimate betrayal by leaders of modern medicine who suppressed these discoveries. 67 min. The man who was in charge of shipping U.S. War materials to Russia during World War II tells how he was instructed by officials in the White House and State Department to deliver critical parts for the atomic bomb - at the same time the government was pretending to be worried about Russia stealing America's A-bomb secrets. 55 min.
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COWLING, Keith George was born in 1936 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England.
Bachelor of Science University London, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy University Illinois, 1967.
Assistant Lector, Lector, Senior Lector, Reader, University Manchester, 1961-1962, 1963-1965,1965-1966,1966-1969. Economics Planning Consultant,Food and Agricultural Organisation, United Nations, 1963-1965. Visiting Fellow, Economics Research Institute, Institution, Dublin, 1965.
Consultant, United Kingdom National Board Prices and Incomes, 1966-
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Consultant, Working Group Member, United Kingdom National Economics Development Office, 1966-1968. Research Adviser, West Midlands Economics Planning Board, 1967-1969.
Visiting Professor, Washington University, Street Louis, Missouri, United States of America, 1969-1970. Company-Director, Director, Centre Industrial Economics and Business Research, University Warwick, 1970-1973.
Professor of Economics, University Warwick, Coventry, England, since 1969.
Editor, International J. Industrial Organization, since 1982. Correspondent Editor, Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies, since 1982. Association Editor, Journal of Industrial Economics, 1977-1982.
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(an address by G. Edward Griffin. A refutation of the myth...)
My early research was on the factor markets serving agriculture, culminating in the book on Resource Structure of Agriculture. This work led my research interests in two directions: first into a more general interest in labour market analysis — with work on disaggregated Phillips curves, and second, into a more long-term concern with oligopolistic market structures. In pursuing the second interest, I initially focussed on the specification and estimation of demand functions facing firms operating in oligopolistic markets, with price, quality and advertising as decision variables.
The central aim was to begin to understand the degree of market power possessed by the major corporations, and its determinants. A fairly major study of the impact and determinants of advertising investment, published as Advertising and Economic Behaviour, formed a particular extension of these interests. Some theoretical work on the links between market structure and the degree of monopoly was coupled with attempts at empirical estimation and subsequently with an analysis of the social costs of monopoly power.
All this led gradually towards my central concern in recent years: the impact of the existence of monopoly power, and in many cases growing monopoly power, on the functioning of the macroeconomic system as a whole. This led to the publication of my book on Monopoly Capitalism and subsequently to papers on the internationalisation of production and deindustrialisation, and, going a little deeper, to a more recent one focussing on economic obstacles to democracy.