John D Rockefeller

Stanford economist Mordecai Kurz argues that tech oligarchs are eroding democracy through monopolies and predicts an end to this trend. Kurz's new book, Private Power and Democracy's Decline, connects monopoly power with political and economic inequality. The US is experiencing an extreme version of a pattern where technological power concentrates in the hands of a few.

Stanford economist Mordecai Kurz argues that tech oligarchs are eroding democracy through monopolies and predicts an end to this trend. Kurz's research connects monopoly power with political and economic inequality. The US is living through an extreme version of a pattern that has repeated itself since industrialization.