Books They Don't Want You Reading

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[Verse 1]
There's a shelf they hope you'll never find
Books that open up your mind
Stanford wrote for everyone to see
Economics ain't no mystery
From up north came truths they try to hide
How the markets really work inside

[Chorus]
Stanford, Philippon, Stoller too
Canadian Dimension's telling you
The books they don't want you reading now
Show the game and tell you how
Deregulation, concentration
Built their wealth on our stagnation

[Verse 2]
Philippon traced the great reversal
How free markets became rehearsal
For monopolies to take control
Deregulation played its role
Less competition, higher prices
Corporate power never crisis

[Chorus]
Stanford, Philippon, Stoller too
Canadian Dimension's telling you
The books they don't want you reading now
Show the game and tell you how
Deregulation, concentration
Built their wealth on our stagnation

[Verse 3]
Canadian Dimension breaks it down
Neoliberalism came to town
Productivity for who and why
Workers' wages still don't fly
While profits soar to record heights
Someone's winning, guess who fights

[Bridge]
Goliath tells the story clear
Anti-monopoly disappeared
Stoller mapped the path we took
From competition to the corporate hook
History they don't teach in school
Shows how we became the fool

[Chorus]
Stanford, Philippon, Stoller too
Canadian Dimension's telling you
The books they don't want you reading now
Show the game and tell you how
Deregulation, concentration
Built their wealth on our stagnation

[Outro]
So find these books and read them all
Before the curtain starts to fall
The knowledge that they keep away
Might just save us all someday

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