{"id":21723,"date":"2019-03-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=99843a962da814190ab3dac6f48e960b"},"modified":"2019-03-05T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T08:00:00","slug":"what-can-a-board-game-teach-us-about-capitalism-with-jared-bernstein-and-jonathan-tepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/03\/05\/what-can-a-board-game-teach-us-about-capitalism-with-jared-bernstein-and-jonathan-tepper\/","title":{"rendered":"What can a board game teach us about capitalism? (with Jared Bernstein and Jonathan Tepper)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Monopoly and its equally evil twin monopsony are destroying competition, depressing wages, and slowing economic growth. Is market concentration an inevitable outcome of capitalism, or is there a smarter solution?<\/p><p>Jared Bernstein: Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, former Chief Economist and Economic Adviser to VP Biden and Executive Director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and author of \u2018The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity\u2019.\u00a0<\/p><p>Twitter: @econjared\u00a0<\/p><p>Jonathan Tepper: Founder of Variant Perception, a macroeconomic research group that caters to asset managers. Author of \u2018The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition\u2019, \u2018Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle\u2019, and \u2018Code Red\u2019, a book on unconventional monetary policy.\u00a0<\/p><p>Twitter: @jtepper2\u00a0<\/p><p>Further reading: https:\/\/democracyjournal.org\/magazine\/51\/progressive-labor-standards\/\u00a0<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"\">Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Monopoly and its equally evil twin monopsony are destroying competition, depressing wages, and slowing economic growth. Is market concentration an inevitable outcome of capitalism, or is there a smarter solution?Jared Bernstein: Senior Fellow &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21724,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21723\/revisions\/21724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}