{"id":1803,"date":"2018-08-26T22:26:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T02:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/2018\/08\/26\/mainstream-economists-are-discussing-questions-like-whether-monopsony-the-outsize-power-of-a-few-consolidated-employers-is-part-of-the-problem-of-low-wage-growth\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:20:28","slug":"mainstream-economists-are-discussing-questions-like-whether-monopsony-the-outsize-power-of-a-few-consolidated-employers-is-part-of-the-problem-of-low-wage-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/08\/26\/mainstream-economists-are-discussing-questions-like-whether-monopsony-the-outsize-power-of-a-few-consolidated-employers-is-part-of-the-problem-of-low-wage-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Superstar Firms and Amazon Effects Reshaping the Economy? – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/25\/upshot\/big-corporations-influence-economy-central-bank.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Two of the most important economic facts of the last few decades are that more industries are being dominated by a handful of extraordinarily successful companies and that wages, inflation and growth have remained stubbornly low.<\/p>\n

Many of the world\u2019s most powerful economic policymakers are now taking seriously the possibility that the first of those facts is a cause of the second \u2014 and that the growing concentration of corporate power has confounded the efforts of central banks to keep economies healthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/25\/upshot\/big-corporations-influence-economy-central-bank.html Two of the most important economic facts of the last few decades are that more industries are being dominated by a handful of extraordinarily successful companies and that wages, inflation and growth have remained stubbornly low. 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