My Work
The BIG Newsletter
A newsletter on the politics of monopoly power.
- The Beginning of the End for Big Corporate Medicine
- Monopoly Round-Up: The $2 Trillion Collapse of Bitcoin and Terrible Software Companies
- Jeff Bezos Just Taught Liberal Elites How Oligarchy Really Works
Organized Money Podcast
A podcast about how big business really works.
- The End of United Healthcare For All
- White Collar Crime Enforcement In The Age Of ICE
- The Monopolists Who Gatekeep the Court System
Meet Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) is a public intellectual who writes about the American anti-monopoly tradition. He is the author of the Simon and Schuster book Goliath: The Hundred Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy.
Stoller is the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project. He is the co-host of the podcast Organized Money and publishes an email newsletter called BIG.
Stoller is a former policy advisor to the Senate Budget Committee, and worked in the House of Representatives on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act.
He has lectured on competition policy and media at Columbia University, Harvard Law, Duke Law, Bertelsmann Foundation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, West Point and the National Communications Commission of Taiwan. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, Vice, The American Conservative, and the Baffler.
About the Book
"An important story" and "an inspiration" for the Congressional investigation into the big tech platforms.
- House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline
"One of the year's best books on how to rethink capitalism and improve the economy."
- Business Insider
"Full of righteous and riveting writing, 'Goliath' provides an important overview of a vital history."
- The Washington Post
"A remarkable and fun story about corporate power in America. Stoller brings to life pivotal political fights over banks and monopolies. Highly recommended."
- Former Congressman Henry Waxman
Where to Buy
Excerpts & Reviews
Excerpts
- The Rise and Fall of Andrew Mellon, The American Prospect
- How the Democrats Became the Party of Monopoly and Corruption, Vice
- How the "Watergate Babies" Released the Beast of Monopoly Upon America, ProMarket, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Stigler Center Blog
- How Reagan, Clinton, and Bill Gates paved the way for the rise of Big Tech, Fast Company
Reviews/Commentary
- Barack Obama's Biggest Mistake, Farhad Manjoo in The New York Times
- Monopoly and Its Discontents, Gerald Berk in The American Prospect
- Monopoly Power and the Malfunctioning American Economy, Sam Long, Institutional Investor
- A history of America's fight against monopolies, Benjamin Waterhouse in The Washington Post
- Corporatism Is An American, Bipartisan Scourge, Saagar Enjeti in The American Conservative
- Antitrust and the Candlestick Makers, Daniel Oliver, The American Spectator
- Kirkus review of Goliath, Kirkus
- Small vs. big – not blue vs. red – is the great battle of the next American century, Ross Baird in Impact Alpha