A review by avisholkoff
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
4.0
I enjoyed this book. Sen. Klobuchar is very intelligent and this book provides a wealth of context and history behind antitrust (or competition policy, as the Senator wants it to be called). It also offers potential policy and regulatory solutions to the increasing economic consolidation we're seeing today.
I do wish it had chosen to focus one or the other. That is, it felt like the historical context section was a bit brief when it could've been more in depth. The solutions section felt like its own book by itself, and thus reading the whole thing (which took me a bit) seemed to be as if I read two different (well-written) pieces by the Senator.
Ultimately I enjoyed it, especially the importance of building public engagement on antitrust issues. As she writes "It's not ever going to be easy to get the public too perk up when they hear the word 'antitrust.'" Hopefully with this book, it will, at least a little bit.
I do wish it had chosen to focus one or the other. That is, it felt like the historical context section was a bit brief when it could've been more in depth. The solutions section felt like its own book by itself, and thus reading the whole thing (which took me a bit) seemed to be as if I read two different (well-written) pieces by the Senator.
Ultimately I enjoyed it, especially the importance of building public engagement on antitrust issues. As she writes "It's not ever going to be easy to get the public too perk up when they hear the word 'antitrust.'" Hopefully with this book, it will, at least a little bit.