Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

Gerald F. Davis, "Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

From New Books in Technology by New Books Network

May 16, 2026 · 1h 13m

About this episode

Gerald F. Davis discusses the need for a new understanding of corporate power and economic organization in the 21st century.

Information and communication technologies have fundamentally altered the markets for capital, labor, supplies, and distribution in ways that undermine the basic categories we use to understand the economy. Nationality, industry, firm, size, employee, and other fundamental terms are increasingly detached from the operations of the economy. If we want to understand and tame the new sources of economic power, we need a new diagnosis and a new set of tools. The broad consensus across the political spectrum in the US that monopolistic corporations – particularly Big Tech companies -- have grown too powerful, and that we need to revive antitrust to take on the 'curse of bigness' is mistaken. But both the diagnosis and the cure are rooted in an outdated understanding of how the American economy is organized. Listen to this interview about Taming Corporate Power in the 21st Century (Cambridge UP, 2022) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/technology

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Host: New Books Network

Guest: Gerald F. Davis

Topics covered

  • corporate power
  • antitrust
  • economic power
  • Big Tech
  • information technology
  • market dynamics

Keywords

  • corporate power
  • antitrust
  • Big Tech
  • economic diagnosis
  • market changes
  • information technology

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Organizations: Cambridge UP, Big Tech

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