It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this in itself is a deeply ideological position, involving the
wholesale adoption of the economic
model of neoliberalism that had swept the
world under Thatcher and her allies 10 or 15 years earlier.
You don't have to memorize the contract differences between the agency
model vs. the
wholesale model, or read every blog on the subject, or track the negotiation proceedings between Hachette and Amazon like it's the
World Cup.