Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Monopolies Are Why People Keep Contracting Deep Vein Thrombosis on Long-Haul Flights 19
Chapter 2 Monopolies Are Why a Farmer's Daughter Is Crying Behind the Desk of a Best Western 43
Chapter 3 Monopolies Are Why Hundreds of Journalists Became Filmmakers, then Back to Writers, then Unemployed 69
Chapter 4 Monopolies Are Why Students Sit in Starbucks Parking Lots at Night to Do Their Homework 93
Chapter 5 Monopolies Are Why Teamsters Stormed a Podium to Tell One Another About Their Dead Friends and Relatives 115
Chapter 8 Monopolies Among Banks Are Why There Are Monopolies Among Every Other Economic Sector 141
Chapter 7 Monopolies Are Why America Can't Build or Run a Single Weapons System Without Assistance from China 165
Chapter 8 Monopolies Are Why a Small Business Owner and His Girlfriend Had to Get Permission from Amazon to Live Together 191
Chapter 9 Monopolies Are Why Hospitals Can Give Patients Prosthetic Limbs and Artificial Hearts but Not Salt and Water in a Bag 215
Chapter 10 Monopolies Are Why a Woman Found Her Own Home Listed for Rent on Zillow 237
Chapter 11 Monopolies Are Why a Family Has Seen Only the Top of Their Loved One's Head for the Past Two Years 259
Chapter 12 Monopolies Are Why I Traveled to Chicago and Tel Aviv to Learn How to Stop Them 281
Acknowledgments 297
Select Bibliography and a Note on Sources 301
Index 307