Mastering the Universe: The Obscene Wealth of the Ruling Class, What They Do with Their Money, and Why You Should Hate Them Even More

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LIVELY, ACCESSIBLE WRITING: Rob Larsons day job as a professor of economics might conjure images of stuffy academics, but his ironic sensibility and razor sharp wit set him apart. Larsons distinctive stylehoned during his time as a scriptwritercombines this sense of humor with an ability to synthesize a tremendous amount of financial data to produce some of the most accessible and engaging economic writing out there. Think Paul Krugman if he were a socialist (and actually funny).

all demonstrate the growing interest in rigorous but accessible analysis of economic developments.

will connect with these sentiments and offer a peek behind the curtain of the wealthy.

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Praise for Bit Tyrants: "Highly informed, lively and readable, this is a badly needed study of the giant high tech corporations that increasingly dominate the means of work and social interaction, amass and scrutinize the details of our lives, seek to shape attitudes and behavior, and like the great virtual monopolies of the past both rely on state power and heavily influence it. Beyond exposing the nature of this awesome and threatening system. Noam Chomsky "Today's tech giants control technologies that have suffused our lives, and they have generated a self-glorifying mythology and hype to match. Rob Larson's Bit Tyrants helps puncture this ideological reality-distortion field, providing a guide to monopolistic giants like Amazon and Google, as they transform labor, politics, war and more. He does all this with a sarcastic wit that will bring a smile to anyone who has cursed the malign influence of these companies and their plutocratic rulers on 21st Century life." Peter Frase, author of Four Futures

Author Bio

Rob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College and author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and Capitalism vs. Freedom. He writes for Jacobin, In These Times, and Dollars & Sense. He is the House Economist at Current Affairs. Larson lives in Tacoma, Washington (because Jeff Bezos has made Seattle unliveably expensive).