Tackling agrifood monopolies in African countries
Former regulator Chilufya Sampa talks about the opportunities and challenges of upholding competition law in African contexts.
Read ThisTime to revive the UN commission for multinationals?
Fifty years ago, the UN was a hub of ambitious thinking about corporate power. Maybe it should be again, argues the Editor.
Read ThisSo what should we do about corporate power?
All the ideas on Critical Takes (and more) in one short read, and how they fit into a common agenda.
Read ThisHow Big Tech turns knowledge into power
The three "cloud giants" capture knowledge and use it to dominate other companies, says Cecilia Rikap.
Read This"Their economic power has never been greater."
Jayati Ghosh tells Critical Takes that the rising profits of multinational corporations rest on their influence over states.
Read ThisCorporate power and neoliberal amnesia
The fate of the UN's commission on transnational corporations shows the need to safeguard what we already know, says Matti Ylönen.
Read ThisHow "national champions" are reshaping the global meat industry
Kate Sievert, Phil Howard and their co-authors show how public backing for firms from Brazil and China creates new centres of corporate power.
Read ThisCurbing monopoly power: what happens now?
Claire Godfrey of the Balanced Economy Project talks about where the US and Europe might go on the problem of corporate monopolies.
Read ThisBig Tech's political push in Europe
Max Bank of LobbyControl talks about the “corporate siege” of Davos, Big Tech's political power and Elon Musk’s meddling in Germany.
Read This2025 is going to be a bumpy year
Trump, trade tensions, new tech and the climate crisis will make for a volatile year, says the Editor.
Read ThisMonopolies of knowledge are making the rich richer
Tomás Rotta considers the problem of monopolies over intellectual property and what to do about it.
Read ThisOxfam thinks big about curbing corporate power
Critical Takes talks to Alex Maitland of Oxfam about their ambitious ideas for taming big business.
Read ThisTax, market power and global value chains
If we want to do tax reform fairly, we need to talk about multinationals' market power, says Clair Quentin.
Read ThisDemocratic public ownership: an idea whose time has come
There are alternatives to companies being owned by private capital or states, says Thomas M. Hanna.
Read ThisThe new fight against monopoly power
Competition policy offers a potent tool for breaking up the monopoly power of giant corporations, says Nicholas Shaxson, and can win broad political support.
Read ThisThe problem with multistakeholderism
Multistakeholderism is a deeply problematic doctrine which opens the door for corporations to be formally recognised as global governors, partly at the expense of states, says Harris Gleckman.
Read ThisHow to break open Big Tech
The digital power amassed by giant transglobal tech firms needs to be given back to people, communities and nations, argues Parminder Jeet Singh.
Read ThisPushing back against corporate power in the US
US corporations are coming out swinging against attempts to hold them to account, but people are fighting back, says Irit Tamir of Oxfam America.
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