Nicholas Shaxson

Because what we're in fact living through is a new era of monopolization, one that's taken hold under the noses of the very authorities, the competition and antitrust regulators, who are meant to prevent it.

So says Nicholas Shaxson, the author and journalist and a co-founder of the New Competition School.

The school is seeking to become an important countercurrent against the prevailing tides by returning the European Union to the principles of robust enforcement that sprang in part from the defeat of Germany in 1945.

The architects of the European project in the 1950s were mindful that democracy and unchained corporate power are incompatible.

Welcome to EU Scream.

I'm James Kanter.

This is episode 133, How the EU Learned to Love the Chicago School, with Nicholas Shaxson, author and journalist and co-founder of the New Competition School.

We are in front of an audience of academics and campaigners at a summer retreat in England, a retreat for the launch of a new competition school.