Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
In Captive Audience, Susan Crawford explores the telecommunications industry through the lens of monopoly power and the new Gilded Age. The book considers how concentrated control over communications affects competition, consumers, and public life, offering a broad analysis of an industry central to modern society.
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Captive Audience examines the telecommunications industry and the concentration of monopoly power in the modern economy.
Susan Crawford places these developments in the context of what she calls a new Gilded Age, connecting communications infrastructure with broader economic and political concerns.
The book considers how industry structure affects competition, consumers, and access to essential communications services.
It offers a critical perspective on the role of telecommunications companies and the public consequences of their growing influence.
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