# The Curse of Bigness (2018) [[Tim Wu]]'s short, deliberately polemical recovery of the Brandeisian case against concentration — that monopoly is a threat to **self-government** and not merely to consumers, and that a legal regime measuring only price cannot see that threat at all. The title is [[Louis Brandeis]]'s phrase. Wu's historical argument is that the [[Consumer Welfare Standard]] narrowed antitrust so far that it stopped functioning as the structural check the Progressives built it to be, and that the resulting concentration across telecoms, airlines, hospitals, agriculture, and technology produced exactly the political effects Brandeis predicted. He draws the comparison to the interwar period explicitly: extreme economic concentration and democratic fragility have historically arrived together. Published two years after "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," it is the [[New Brandeis Movement]]'s popularizing text where [[Lina Khan]]'s article is its technical one. Wu joined the National Economic Council in 2021 as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy and was the principal drafter of Executive Order 14036. > Stub — fill out. See [[US Antitrust and Monopoly Timeline]].