It would be an exaggeration to suggest that antitrust provides a full answer to either inequality or other economic woes. But it does strike at the root cause of private political power—the economic concentration that facilitates political action. Advocating antitrust revival is not meant to compete with other economic proposals to address inequality. But laws that would redistribute wealth are themselves blocked by the enhanced political power of concentrated industries. In this way, the structure of the economy has an underlying influence on everything in the realm of economic policy. If
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