The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

More and more of the Canadian economy is dominated by a handful of huge companies that control what we buy, how we work, and which other businesses can or can’t thrive. In this episode of Books in 5, the authors of the book The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians join us to examine and reflect on the harmful consequences of monopoly power in Canada and what can be done to achieve better outcomes for consumers, the market and society at large.The future of Canada’s economy is up for grabs, and The Big Fix shows how the country can achieve a more innovative, productive, and livable economy for all Canadians.Vass Bednar is the executive director of McMaster University’s Master of Public Policy in Digital Society program. Her work focuses on the intersections between policy and the innovation ecosystem. She is a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and writes the popular newsletter “regs to riches."Denise Hearn is an author, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world. She is a resident senior fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment at Columbia University. Denise co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, named a Financial Times best book of 2018.@VassB@denisehearn_