The author appears to suffer from nostalgia bias, longing for turn of the century progressivism to reign in his old corporate foe. This same well of centralized thinking gave a brave new world eugenics, prohibition, and industrial nationalism. Antitrust is indeed an important emergency power of the government, but its utility is most often the self-corrction of errors caused by the state itself.

If you want to target monopolies in this modern age, go after companies like Comcast that arise out of state induced monoploy as a matter of necessity but go unregulated beyond that. The only thing Amazon is guilty of is decreasing costs of living for millions. It is no more at fault for liss of jobs in bygone industries as Ford was for layoffs in the horse and buggy industry.

The authors's argument essentially amounts to the Corporations Being All Corporationy.