Basel Musharbash is principal attorney at Antimonopoly Counsel, where he practices antimonopoly and trade regulation law. By taking on corporate power, his work on behalf of farmers, small businesses, and workers seeks to secure the conditions for small-town economies to thrive.
In September 2024, Basel authored the landmark report “Kings Over the Necessaries of Life”: Monopolization and the Elimination of Competition in America’s Agriculture System, which starkly documented the consolidation of market power in the U.S. agriculture sector and provided a detailed history of antimonopoly efforts in this area between 1860 and the present day.
We got the chance to speak with Basel this past January to learn more about this history, and in particular about the role that railroads and railroad regulation had to play in it. Here is our conversation.
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