Tim Wu & “The Curse of Bigness”

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Underreported with Nicholas Lemann
Underreported with Nicholas Lemann
Tim Wu & “The Curse of Bigness”
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We sit down with Columbia University law professor, and author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age Tim Wu to discuss the politics of Louis Brandeis and Theodore Roosevelt as antitrust has reemerged this year as a major issue in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.

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The Curse of Bigness
Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

From the man who coined the term “net neutrality” comes a warning about the dangers of excessive corporate and industrial concentration for our economic and political future.

“While the very term ‘antitrust’ may strike many as dreadfully dry, Wu manages to make this brisk and impressively readable overview of the subject vivid and compelling.” —The Washington Post