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So many of us think that because we live in a free Country that we have complete freedom to make choices about every aspect of our lives. However, there are a select group of corporations that control our money and products that we buy. Monopolies are considered to be taboo and illegal, but somehow these big corporations manage to have a big chunk of power. This book is really eye-opening and truly shows the impact these corporations have on our daily lives.

Eye-opening, entertaining, terrifying, energizing - "Monopolized" is all of those things. Dayen takes us on a detailed tour of concentration in almost every aspect of our economy, showing how monopolies contribute to much of our inequality, political corruption, and social dysfunction.

He writes about complicated subjects with a light touch, expressing his outrage without going over the top and without getting bogged down in jargon or minutiae. The chapters on venture capitalism and banking could easily have become labyrinthine, but Dayen lays them out as clearly as I've ever seen.

The subject matter is of vital importance to our country's future - I am not being hyperbolic - and I would recommend this book to any American worker or consumer.

A really eye-opening reporting of how everything in the U.S. is horrifically monopolized, I enjoyed the narrative style.

This is an important and certainly enraging book; it certainly helps make clear the extent to which government is not so much corrupted by big business as an extension of it. A book that should be gifted to people who have gotten as far as realizing that the Republicans aren't anyone's friend, but still fondly imagine that we have a real opposition party.

Wow, I had no idea how few choices we really have, with so many companies all owning each other. This would be great for business and/or economics students to read, or anyone who is interested in how the world works.