Economist Dean Baker recognizes the effect of government conferred monopoly to big Pharma by way of information control (patents) on consumers. He needs to expand this understanding to all the other ways information control affects power structures. A simple example: secrecy is essential to hide organized crime from authorities; 'blue wall of silence' is essential to shield illegal/immoral/unethical police and their actions from the public.
Note: Control of information is relevant to practically every label.
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