The robber barons
by Josephson, Matthew, Matthew Josephson · first published 1878
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Includes material on John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpoint Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William H. Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E.H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Jim Fisk, Jay Cooke, Daniel Drew, Henry C. Frick, James J. Hill, Charles M. Schwab, Henry Villard, Standard Oil Company, trusts.
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…impunity than they do now. I'm afraid you've been misinformed. To give an example of regulations that libertarians would oppose - rent control. If you want to impugn capitalism, may I suggest "The Robber Barons" by Josephson. Josephson seems to share your viewpoint, and he wrote an actual history book of capitalism of the period, complete with an index, sources, quotations, footnotes, all the good stuff. I have…
on “Eve Online alliance leader banned after threatening to cut off betrayer's hands” ↗Thanks for the recommendation, I've been looking for books like this to better understand today and what our future might look like. I'm currently wrapping up The Robber Barons by Matthew Josephson and it's a really solid read.
on “Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data” ↗…generally finding it unconvincing), until I encountered this sentence: > The catalyst for this negative view of American entrepreneurs was historian Matthew Josephson, who wrote a landmark book, The Robber Barons. Josephson, the son of a Jewish banker, grew up in New York and graduated from Columbia University In what world is his being jewish relevant to the article, except to dog-whistle anti-semetic protocols-of-the-elders-of-zion…
on “The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U.” ↗