3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American lawyer and education reformer — Chancellor of New York City schools (2002–2010) — former head of DOJ Antitrust Division (prosecuted Microsoft) — who led the most ambitious urban school reform effort in American history.
John D. Rockefeller's oil refining company — which grew to control 90% of US oil refining by 1882 — through horizontal integration, ruthless cost reduction, and the systematic acquisition or destruction of competitors, making it the greatest monopoly in American history before its 1911 dissolution.
Ken Auletta's 2001 account of the US government's antitrust case against Microsoft — covering the trial, the lawyers, the government strategy, and Bill Gates's famous deposition — providing the definitive narrative of the most important antitrust case in technology history.