The Profit Paradox : : How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work /

The Profit Paradox : : How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work / / Jan Eeckhout.

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A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power—and how it stifles workers around the worldIn an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are r...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Business and Economics 2021 English
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Eeckhout, Jan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 Introduction
  • PART I. THE ORIGINS OF MARKET POWER
  • 2 The Art of Managing the Moat
  • 3 Technological Change and Superiority
  • PART II. THE HARMFUL CONSEQUENCES OF MARKET POWER
  • 4 A Falling Tide Lowers All Boats
  • 5 Economy of Stars
  • 6 Unequal We Stand
  • 7 The Gold Watch Myth
  • 8 Rich Suburbanite, Poor Suburbanite
  • PART III. THE FUTURE OF WORK AND FINDING SOLUTIONS
  • 9 Plenty of Reasons to Be Optimistic
  • 10 The Future of Work
  • 11 The Quest for Facts
  • 12 Putting the Trust Back into Antitrust
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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