Shall it be through countervailing power — that is, confronting bigness with bigness?
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Their very bigness is what makes them turn slowly, but their bigness is also what makes them worth turning.
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Presumably the Wisconsin governor meant to show off the bigness of his hand, and particularly the freakish bigness of his thumb.
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Now, with the microscope on his competition — Amazon, Google and Facebook — he cautions against what he suggests is a denunciation of bigness for bigness' sake.
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You can't get back the beautiful, ignorant bigness of youth.
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And now the bigness is going to solve the mess?
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I understood it then: Pointing out someone's bigness was bad.
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You're a guy being part of this bigness, this greatness.
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Even in an age of bigness, it is a behemoth.
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And corporate bigness doesn't need to be a partisan issue.
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I wanted to look American bigness squarely in the face.
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Yeah, just comfort and bigness is really sexy for me.
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The bigness of those Big Unifying Sports Moments would naturally appeal to the cynical cadre of delusional reactionaries that head up the NFL, because those people see themselves as being in the Bigness Business.
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The bigness of my female body was painful, shameful, and ugly.
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The Sherman Act is still the government's main weapon against bigness.
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I loved it for its bigness, for the endless feeling it evoked.
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She really had the bigness of heart to say something like that.
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Big Tech's main virtue — its very bigness — is getting it in trouble.
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These things are a tiny taste of the bigness of the world.
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Social scientists have learned that monument visitors revel in that same bigness.
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In 2018, corporations continued to seek bigness, often for good business reasons.
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Finally, some companies that were headed toward bigness slammed on the brakes.
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But it wasn't just its bigness that set the iPad Pro apart.
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Until recently, bigness for its own sake was essential to Volkswagen's identity.
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I could tell: The bigness of Utah was freaking out the crows.
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Yes, but: It turns out that bigness may not always be a curse.
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His real problem is simpler: both parties rather like some forms of bigness.
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Bigness, at least in terms of luxury, seems to be a dwindling proposition.
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Bigness could even be good, because it promoted efficiency and thus lower prices.
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As the costs of bigness have risen, companies have been looking for alternatives.
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But back then bigness was considered an asset, and attendance was typically good.
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He said he doesn't see "bigness" as a problem — in government, business or tech.
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Gillian lived like she drove, moving the bigness of her personality with apparent abandon.
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I've been really inspired at Coach by the bigness of the great American landscape.
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There's lots and lots more examples that prove Trump's obsession with size and bigness.
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Mount Rushmore is not just big; it is about bigness — a monument to monumentalism.
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They're a good example of what the book is called, The Curse of Bigness.
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"She created this image that has a real sense of weariness and bigness," she added.
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"The Curse of Bigness" moves nimbly through the thicket, embracing the boons of being small.
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" Or, to put the same concept in other words, the problem is "bigness of leverage.
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In practice, though, the legal protection of the consumer is indifferent to bigness in business.
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The "exa" is prefix indicating bigness, in this case 1 quintillion floating point operations, or FLOPs.
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Wu's thesis is that Bigness — what he calls the new trusts — are behind all of it.
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I want to make stuff that's big enough to immerse the viewers, aided by their bigness.
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That he did so on his own points out a key part of his message: bigness.
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It really feels at the moment that there is great opposition to bigness right now ... Right.
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The arguments in favor of bigness may have less to do with profits than sheer survival.
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The act, as courts have interpreted it, does not prohibit bigness or even monopoly, per se.
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That sense of bigness is the feeling on which so much good science fiction has been founded.
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A Republican administration wasn't expected to take a hard line against the "bigness" of successful American icons.
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Right now, it seems to be all big all the time with more bigness on the way.
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I guess that gets us back to the question of bigness and what consumers think about this.
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This year, in its quest for bigness and moreness, the N.F.L. took over the city of Philadelphia.
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The curse of bigness adversely affected everyone and in every way, and therefore had to be fought.
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In TV, I never wanted my size to be the butt of the joke, or my bigness.
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People were fascinated by the bigness of the planet, caught up in the early stages of globalization.
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He cared about bigness because he cared about democracy, and it was connected to his ideas about privacy.
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Experts note that bigness alone does not constitute an antitrust violation, but it's a hell of a start.
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In The Curse of Bigness Revisited (a working title) Wu plans to make his case for tighter regulation.
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" Eventually, it hits you: "There was just something about bigness that scared me when I was a kid.
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Riis thought of the bet with his friends, for which the meaning of bigness had not been defined.
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He is rabbinical, prophetic; but he is also, in his bigness and his emotion, like a giant mother.
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What is a trade assn for big tech, under investigation for bigness, and smaller tech, which has concerns?
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Suspicion of bigness—in government and in business, especially banking—has been a venerable theme in American politics.
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Heightened scrutiny of the consequences of its bigness is beginning to supplant the glowing coverage of its success.
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When asked if Google would be broken up, he cited investment in emerging technologies as a benefit of bigness.
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He is much closer to the historical archetype of a Democrat: loud, brash, populist, desiring bigness in all things.
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Among the next I queried was Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia and author of The Curse of Bigness.
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But Galbraith believed that in an advanced capitalist economy, the inevitability of bigness needed to be recognized, even embraced.
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Even Brandeis's passion for devolving power to accountable levels of government has been subverted by the forces of bigness.
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At first, this bigness seems off-kilter, even distracting, perhaps because immensity in movies tends to serve visual spectacle.
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But I would rather speak of Anne Sexton's bigness as a person than of her greatness as a poet.
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For most of its run, "Game of Thrones" has been defined by bigness and a far-flung story structure.
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If in its physical bigness this musical "King Kong" can really achieve big emotion, I'd forgive it almost anything.
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Lippmann and Croly would not have expected that hostility to bigness would still be around a hundred years later.
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Besides the Sherman Act, there is another long-standing weapon against bigness, unlovely and disorganized but probably more consequential.
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What's happening: Regulators and thinkers in the U.S. and Europe are tying bigness to low wages and poor working conditions.
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Instead, the "bigness" is spread across a small group of tech companies, nearly all of which face threats of regulation.
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But instead now, at 34, I just try to not let my "bigness" — real or perceived — ruin any future experiences.
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But in a time of populist, elite-bashing rhetoric, his beliefs about the "curse of bigness" are even more topical.
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It is revealing that the critics of such mergers argue against bigness while almost never applying that mantra to government.
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Bigness doesn't create competition, it pulls everything into a black hole that's hostile to consumers and citizens around the world.
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"I always gravitated to bigness in transformation, so the berry girl scenario was easy to get excited about," Maxgrowth said.
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Bigness — grand pronouncements, operatic dynamics, Mercury's soaring voice and Brian May's titanic guitar buildups — was the cornerstone of Queen's music.
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Amazon, like the rest of Big Tech, is being swept up in this crisis of faith, villainized for its very bigness.
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No. I think it's safe to say it's the biggest project we've done in any way you want to measure bigness.
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There is, more than anything else, a piteous failure of the imagination at the heart of the NFL's bet on bigness.
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Another important development that goes unaddressed is that we live in a time of "bigness," yes, but also, confusingly, debilitating smallness.
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Both Ford and GM are less preoccupied with financial bigness than they are with operating sound businesses and tackling new opportunities.
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The bigness invites you in, asks you to hear your way into the room where the album's nine musicians convened. 6.
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It's time to break up Facebook Tim Wu's new book is called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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This is information I cut from the Grace Notes column, not wanting to diminish Big's bigness in readers' minds, or my own.
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In Episode One of "Trump Bites," above, the president humble-brags about the "bigness" of the Oval Office, relishing his own importance.
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Astrophysicists are forever toggling between feelings of bigness and smallness, of hubris and humility, depending on whether they're looking out or within.
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In 1934, he published a collection of writings called "The Curse of Bigness," but it does not make a sustained, rigorous argument.
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Johansson is playing a woman whose certitude has, for years, been divided by marital second guesses, by Charlie's (and Driver's) emotional bigness.
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The backdrop: Bigness in corporate America is under increasing scrutiny by regulators and scholars who link it to stagnant wages and anti-competition.
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But in interviews this week, when Axios asked Pichai and Gates how they are reckoning with the backlash against bigness, they defended it.
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Yes. My argument is there's another way to build a company and it doesn't all have to be about the worship of bigness.
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But in Wu's new book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," he argues that all of that has changed.
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Google and many other tech firms have significant market shares, but they have earned their popularity because their bigness creates value for consumers.
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While many expressed concern about the bigness of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, there wasn't a consensus on how to deal with them.
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" Bloys might think that an emphasis on bigness — big budgets, big productions — is the wrong lesson to take from the success of "Thrones.
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And, O.K., sure, maybe it's ironic that a 2,600-page four-novel cycle seems to have, at its heart, an argument against bigness.
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In a time when Craigslist was for creeps and AIM was for your friends, Chatroulette held space for the bigness of the internet.
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In this excerpt from Tim Wu's new book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," the author says that after the fast and chaotic late-90s and early 2000s, people assumed that bigness — the economics of scale — no longer really mattered in the new economy, and that there could be no such thing as a lasting monopoly on the internet.
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In yet another win for bigness and big companies, Amazon may be leaving the small suppliers who rely on its platform in the dust.
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In the midst of this debate over the future of antitrust comes Tim Wu's The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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With such a diverse set of businesses, Amazon will make it hard for regulators to reign in the "bigness" many are hoping it will tackle.
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In the view of centrists like Obama, bigness is no longer a menace to society—it's essential to the efficient functioning of the entire economy.
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In rapturous yet playful lines, she sings about her man: the bigness of his frame and smile; his head "full of big ideas"; his voice.
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At the same time, it takes a particular kind of great-face bigness — the kind you see in silent movies — to get the points across.
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In rapturous yet playful lines, she sings about her man: the bigness of his frame and smile; his head "full of big ideas"; his voice.
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And it links the driver to a time when the bigness of an engine and the ability of a motor car to stun were joined.
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Since bigness is one of the qualities that Art Jakarta aims for, the three-day event, which concluded on September 19563, must be judged a success.
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He wrote a book on the subject, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, and appeared all over media to make his argument.
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Such thinking indicates just how far Democrats have retreated from the trust-busting days of Brandeis, who authored an influential book called The Curse of Bigness.
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CreditCreditDavid Benjamin Sherry for The New York Times The trees are so big that it would be cowardly not to deal with their bigness head on.
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For the economic system to become more inclusive, competitive, and deliver for more people, some or a lot of that bigness may have to be broken up.
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But he'll endure as a symbol of his time -- one whose artistic merits can (and surely will) be debated, but whose bigness and significance can't be ignored.
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Look beyond the tears in your eyes at Eleven and Hopper's heartbreaking daddy/daughter reunion, and ask: What does Stranger Things 2's "bigness" actually amount to?
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That tireless devotion to profits, even if it comes at the expense of personal greatness or corporate bigness, is a lesson most of the industry could learn.
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That pursuit of bigness, and the attempt to manufacture momentousness multiple times per week, every week, is doomed not just because it's hard, but because it's doomed.
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Bigness, economies of scale in providing essential goods and services are dehumanizing, representing a huge hidden cost we must account for when choosing the lowest price. Technology.
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If you remember one thing: All that bigness that you see around you — outsized cities, companies and individuals gobbling up most of the economic pie — is not normal.
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Why it matters: The stink against bigness is spreading, with scholars, lawmakers and grassroots organizers decrying the same Big Tech companies that were once considered 0003st century champions.
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The big picture: The stink against bigness is spreading, with scholars, lawmakers and grassroots organizers decrying the same Big Tech companies that were once considered 0003st century champions.
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Last week, at the Aspen Ideas Festival, I interviewed Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of a new book called The Curse of Bigness.
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The Curse of Bigness is neither an academic book nor a policy brief, so his prescriptions are more a sketch of an agenda than a blueprint for reform.
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The two discuss the usefulness of U2's desire for bigness, the band's many imitators and whether U2 is actually a worship-music band working in the mainstream.
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Goliath expands the history and scope of argumentation, producing the broader, unwieldy thesis that monopoly and bigness itself is, categorically, an elitist project that subverts the democratic process.
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The congressman is perhaps handsome by the standards of Washington; he is certainly handsome by the standards expressed by Trump, who seems to equate it mostly with bigness.
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But I think in the longer run, this is the curse of bigness — even the greatest companies, they start to stagnate and kind of rot a little bit.
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In 2005, critics skewered the pop-rock band's third album X&Y for being "more concerned with its very bigness than with meaning something," as The Guardian put it.
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Here's one way to think about the bigness: The average lightbulb (not the fancy new fluorescent or LED bulbs — the old-fashioned kind) uses about 679 watts of power.
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Tim Wu is a law professor at Columbia, the author of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age" and a contributing New York Times Opinion writer.
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"We have to move past Washington mentality that suggests that the bigness of plans only consists of how many trillions of dollars they put through the Treasury," he said.
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" Tim Wu (@superwuster) is a law professor at Columbia, a contributing opinion writer and the author, most recently, of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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I'm told Wallace's giant bee makes its nest in termite mounds, which is also cool, but if I'm being honest, the big bee's bigness is its primary appeal to me.
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Can you walk me through what do you do when you're a company like these companies where you're kind of on your way to bigness, but you're not quite there?
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We can argue the legality of big companies merging with big companies until we're blue in the face, but bigness is one of the biggest problems in the world today.
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That's still very much the case in "Ant-Man and the Wasp," an engaging goof that resists bludgeoning you with bigness and instead settles for good vibes and jokes. Look!
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We need to figure out how the classic antidote to bigness — the antitrust and other antimonopoly laws — might be recovered and updated to address the specific challenges of our time.
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Other work has shown that so-called front-vowel sounds, like the "i" in "mil," evoke smallness and lightness, while back-vowel sounds, as in "mal," evoke heaviness and bigness.
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On a clear day in the countryside, Iowa's blue sky can feel Montanan in its bigness, but you can reach most anywhere in the state in two or three hours.
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In an essay in Harper's in 1913, Louis Brandeis, the future Supreme Court justice, decried the "curse of bigness," a broadside against the huge business trusts that dominated the U.S. economy.
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Law professor Tim Wu, the author of "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," has some second (and third) thoughts about the court's decision to approve the megamerger.
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At the same time, they learn that restricted eating, thinness, and denial of appetite are appropriate for girls, and that hearty eating, bigness, and expression of appetite are appropriate for boys.
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However, this is a big moment — the biggest moment in the series thus far — and I think all our key players on Team Targaryen deserve some points to recognize that bigness.
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But whereas Brandeis emphasized breaking up the powerful trusts, Roosevelt thought that bigness might not be a problem if the federal government could prevent big companies from engaging in bad behavior.
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" Wu writes: "What we must realize is that, once again, we face what Louis Brandeis called the 'Curse of Bigness,' which, as he warned, represents a profound threat to democracy itself.
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" Kalen Petersen, Nashville I appreciate Anderson's attempt to leverage a travelogue to highlight our troubled history's long shadows and today's cultural quandary of questioning patriotism, bigness and the definition of "American.
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What made Wilson such an Olympian figure was that he could fit the whole country in an office or a backyard and make the bigness of his ideas seem life-size.
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But this bid for the mass market and the ensuing bigness of the brand necessarily left it without a prestige factor — an issue competitor Ralph Lauren has contended with as well.
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"Much of this conduct has been hiding in plain sight," said Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University and author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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Galloway takes the theme of bigness the next step into popular philosophy: Big tech's success, he writes, pivots on the human need for God (Google) love (Facebook), sex (Apple) and consumption (Amazon).
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To be sure, both of these businesses profited handsomely from their huge scale, but there appear to be costs to this bigness after all — some of which ultimately hurt the businesses themselves.
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Russia is also a hook for a lot of people who are just generally pissed off at Silicon Valley and generally skeptical of bigness in technology, to finally sink their teeth into something.
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And of the liberals who loathed the anti-competitive effects of bigness, Galbraith argued that their "most plausible alternative to competition is full public ownership," which few seriously proposed, either then or now.
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As law professor Tim Wu writes in The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age: In the United States, between 1997 and 2012, 75 percent of American industries became more concentrated.
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Why it matters: This announcement is a way for the company to show the benefits of its bigness: it has the means to spur major economic development in a state that needs it.
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From its slavish conceit of realism, compulsive bigness, and astounding disinterest in telling a story worth the several dozen hours it demands, Red Dead Redemption 22 fails to justify its own excessive existence.
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I guess there's a central joke, and sadness, in the song—that the more he feels insignificant, the bigger the craving for bigness gets, and the more unsuited to modern life he becomes.
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Mr. Childs credits Mr. Antonoff with "moving the radio toward him," with songs that have a personal touch — and pretty much never a carefree attitude — but do not sacrifice any bigness in sound.
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Sony Xperia T2 UltraActually a smartphone worth checking out if you're into the 22015-inch size thing, but in almost every category the OnePlus One just does "bigness" better at near the same price.
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We have been transported back to the early 20th century, when arguments about "the curse of bigness" were advanced by President Woodrow Wilson's counselor, Louis Brandeis, before Wilson appointed him to the Supreme Court.
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"In its pursuit of bigness, Amazon has left a trail of destruction—competitors undercut, suppliers squeezed—some of it necessary, and some of it highly worrisome," Franklin Foer wrote in The New Republic in 2014.
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" Tim Wu, a Columbia law-school professor and the author of a forthcoming book inspired by Brandeis's phrase, told me, "Today, no sector exemplifies more clearly the threat of bigness to democracy than Big Tech.
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It should reassert that Congress in 1950 really did intend to preserve a competitive economy — one that is free, if possible, from what the Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called the "curse of bigness."
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We bemoan consolidation and "bigness" among banks and corporate America, yet the same thing has been happening in higher education, where 1 percent of four-year institutions hold more than half of all endowment wealth.
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Economic policies that seek to prop up homegrown companies as "national champions" have a bad track record, says Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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A seasoned politician, Vestager knows that the payoffs of whacking a tech platform are immense in a continent rife with popular distrust against corporate bigness, U.S.-style capitalism and tech platforms' permission-less attitude toward innovation.
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The Armory's programming has become essential to New York life, although it too often indulges in bigness for bigness's sake—the wow factor of filling the arena with water or bringing in a flock of sheep.
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None of them rose to the bigness of a moment that has seen a total collapse in institutions — an era of systemic fraud, combined with flat wage growth over a generation, and with no solutions offered.
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The folks I've met tend not to measure the bigness of an idea by how many trillions it takes out of the US Treasury, nor the boldness of an idea by how many people it alienates.
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It's the misuse of that bigness and market dominance such as Facebook has been doing by acquiring innovative companies before they can really reach maturity and also copying new technologies so as to stifle competition and innovation.
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Tim Wu, author of The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, tells The Verge that the DOJ's recent loss is simply the culmination of a several-decade decline in meaningful antitrust enforcement in America.
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It's not that there weren't still "arcade-style games"—I love Geometry Wars too—but it felt like the games that made a big impact in our subculture were those that embraced the bigness of the format.
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" The book, he added, "authentically captures not just his political philosophy but his moral philosophy, which is that the bigness and centralized expertise of the modern state and the modern company is something he instinctively rebels against.
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Tim Wu's recent book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," argued that failing to break up the newest giant corporations posed a grave risk of repeating the worst excesses of the Gilded Age.
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It was the beginning of a feedback loop—bigness would be the source of Google's intelligence; intelligence the source of its wealth; and wealth the source of its growth—that would make the company extraordinarily, and unsettlingly, dominant.
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In The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, Tim Wu calls out those huge firms holding most of the power in tech, banks, medicine, and more, and explains the real danger of such excessive corporate power.
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" David Webber, a fashion photographer, told Levine and El-Faizy that at a nightclub party in the 1990s, he noticed that Trump had a girl, likely no older than 16, cornered — "he had surrounded her with his bigness, if you like.
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At a time bigness is being broadly equated with badness, no one is perhaps more so equated than Facebook, the dominant global force in online friendship and the source of a relentless drumbeat of new probes into how it governs itself.
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Best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality" and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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Khan's intellectual breakthrough: Her big splash is taking explicit and injurious aim at Robert Bork's landmark 9403 book, The Antitrust Paradox, which carved the path to today's casual attitude toward corporate bigness, as Steven Pearlstein writes at the Washington Post.
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And his warnings about the "curse of bigness" speak powerfully to an age in which the internet appears structurally inclined to create category-killing behemoths: Google for search, Amazon for retailing and Facebook, it seems, for just about everything else.
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With Mr. Kennedy gone and Mr. McCain ailing, Representative John Lewis of Georgia, the civil rights legend, is one of the few figures left in Washington who evoke a bigness at a moment in history that can seem all too small.
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" As for futuristic fiction and stories of war, Sir Ernest did not have high hopes for their success: "People have lived so close to life, to bigness and reality in these past years that they are not interested in reading theories.
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"At a minimum, [a DC headquarters provides] a window and a mindset for potential regulatory or law enforcement action relevant to its future," Tim Wu, a law professor at Columbia University and author of the forthcoming "The Curse of Bigness," tells Axios.
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It is worth wondering if Simmons launched The Ringer a little too late in a digital world that increasingly requires bigness, like an association with ESPN or a partnership along the lines of the one between Sports Illustrated and Fox Sports's digital properties.
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But while Netflix has the benefit of bigness—and is actively courting A-list creatives like Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy, and Kenya Barris away from linear TV with multimillion-dollar deals—a streamer like Apple TV+ seems like a scrappy startup in comparison.
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Meanwhile, "real clothes, clothes to live in," quoth Daniel Lee at Bottega Veneta after the show, of his oversize, assertive leather anoraks and trench coats, basketball shorts and matching blouson tops — there was bigness for both men and women — and stiff painters pants.
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I don't make a habit of idealizing celebrity marriages, but upon hearing the news I felt the need to take an overtly dramatic walk, so that I might gaze upon the bigness of the ocean and lecture myself about the perils of jealousy.
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From there, he would ramble on about China, winning, losing, Islamic terror, Muslims, Mexicans, bigness, something about something that must be true because he read it or heard it somewhere, the disgusting lying press, and, inevitably, his fantastic super-successful incredibly intelligent self.
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Jackson said Ali did more than any sheik, theologian or imam to normalize Islam in the U.S. Rather than lash out at the racism and other tribulations he faced in life, Ali responded with "nothing but bigness of heart and graciousness of spirit," he said.
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Razer prides itself on selling products made "for gamers, by gamers," and it believes the above combination of desirable internal components will offset the blandness of the Razer Phone's looks, the bigness of its speaker-housing bezels, and the absence of its headphone jack.
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For more than 40 years, Mr. Wade — who was known by the nickname Daddy-O — built whimsical, outsize public art that nodded to Texas's culture of bigness, gaining renown for his uninhibited style but also drawing attention as a serious artist in some circles.
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Photo: Hudson Hongo (Gizmodo)When discussing a big-screen TV, size is bound to be the primary topic of conversation, but with Hisense's 100-inch Ultra HD Laser TV, bigness approaches a thought-terminating cliche—one I have been happy to let take over my puny mind.
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The Bolt is also proof that, in the car industry, size matters — that even if they may be slow to come around to the latest tech, big automakers can alter the car business even more radically than Tesla has, purely as a function of their bigness.
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"We've got to move past a Washington mentality that suggests that the bigness of plans only consists of how many trillions of dollars they put through the Treasury, that the boldness of a plan only consists of how many Americans it can alienate," Mr. Buttigieg said pointedly.
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NAPOLITANO: He, in my opinion, should violate that decision because of the bigness of his heart and the common-sense understanding that it is abusive to children to separate them from their parents particularly when they&aposre in a foreign country and particularly against the will of the parents.
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The game itself is the same size it has always been, but it's telling that, among all the other emotions that will come with kickoff on Sunday, the foremost one might be relief—Super Bowl City will be struck, the endless unasked-for bigness will disappear from view.
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Brandeis usually said that bigness led to monopoly, which, by stifling competition, led to economic inefficiency—but Melvin Urofsky observes that this was really a sentimental view, which grew out of a Jeffersonian conviction that nothing good could possibly come from a large organization, in business or in government.
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Tim Wu thinks it's time to break up Facebook (September 4th, 2018) Best known for coining the phrase "net neutrality" and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Tim Wu has a new book called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age.
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At her best, Dion projects a sense of bigness — besides fairly simple graphics, the background videos in her show often showed cosmic images, as if they were the only thing measuring up on the Dion scale — while still sounding accessible, like a working musician doing her best for the crowd.
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"An amorphous concept of bigness and fairness would lead to politically motivated enforcement" of anti-trust laws, said Janet McDavid, a leading anti-trust lawyer based in Washington, D.C. She said proposals she has seen are "poorly designed to attack social issues" that would be better addressed elsewhere, such as by legislators.
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While Brandeis generally opposed regulation — which, he worried, inevitably led to the corruption of the regulator — and instead advocated breaking up "bigness," he made an exception for "natural" monopolies, like telephone, water and power companies and railroads, where it made sense to have one or a few companies in control of an industry.
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No matter the bigness of the data, the vastness of the Web, the freeness of speech, nothing could be less well settled in the twenty-first century than whether people know what they know from faith or from facts, or whether anything, in the end, can really be said to be fully proved.
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Like Michael Lewis's "The Fifth Risk," a recent book that shows how something most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about — government bureaucracy — is consequential (and potentially terrifying), Wu's "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age" is a surprisingly rousing treatment of another presumably boring subject: mergers and acquisitions.
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"The entire post-Verizon acquisition of Yahoo has been a string of ghastly errors and missteps and so possibly the explanation is just 'the curse of bigness'—that the supposed efficiencies of vertical monopolies are myths, and the reason that these vertical monopolies are so profitable is because they're monopolies, not because they're efficient," Doctorow said.
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In warning about the dangers of Facebook's monopolistic ambitions, Mr. Hughes cites Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and the author of "The Curse of Bigness," who told Wired's editor, Nicholas Thompson: Mark Zuckerberg wrote an email when he was acquiring Instagram that was disclosed in the New York Post, and it suggests he was buying Instagram because he saw it as a competitive threat.
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Today, taking stock of the new political turbulence crossing the globe, numerous scholars have found disturbing similarities in the Gilded Age, the heyday of the trusts, just preceding World War I. This is because in pharma, telecoms, Big Tech and more, judges and politicians have again allowed private companies to run rampant, heedless of workers or society, writes Tim Wu in "The Curse of Bigness," his forthcoming book.
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Antitrust Alone Won't Save Us From the "Curse of Bigness" Gene Kimmelman, the president of Public Knowledge and former chief counsel of the FTC's antitrust division; and Charlotte Slaiman, Public Knowledge's policy lawyer, say breaking up big tech companies isn't the panacea that Tim Wu and others say it will be: While Tim acknowledges the need for additional policy solutions, his focus on antitrust overstates its power to eliminate the full array of harms caused by highly concentrated markets.
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At the same time, Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward were delivering bigness to the rural masses through the original home shopping network: consolidated mail-order catalogs, some over 700 pages, that offered everything from button-hooks and brassieres to motor buggies, delivered directly to their customer's doorstep via the U.S.P.S. An early Sears catalog cover, boasting "Our trade reaches around the world," featured a fair-skinned maiden, addressed envelope in hand, floating over a bucolic American farmstead astride a cornucopia spilling furniture, guns, pianos and clothing.
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Although her shift into Davis – an actress who often portrayed almost a high-dudgeon caricature of her larger-than-life self – is not as eerily spot-on as Lange's Crawford (and given Bette's BIGNESS, how could it be?), Sarandon uncorks every bit of acerbic attitude in her arsenal – something we haven't seen from her before to this magnitude –and it works like gangbusters, especially when juxtaposed against the quieter moments that expose, but never try to overly explain, where that venomous veneer was coming from.
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