All Posts Tagged With: "robber barons"

The Rise of Big Business and the Growth of Government

Most people learn about the relation between the rise of big business and the growth of government in the form of what amounts to a morality play. In the most widely disseminated version, presented in nearly every American history textbook, the emergence of big business (playing the role of the devil) is said to have [...]

19Aug2009 | Robert Higgs | 1 comment | Continued

The American Land Question

Widespread landownership long supported a kind of liberal-republican independence. Perhaps we should reexamine the nexus and ask ourselves how, in Donald Davidson’s words, we “let the freehold pass,” and whether that was really for the best.

10Jun2009 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 6 comments | Continued

Money & Power: The History of Business

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. • 2001 • 274 pages • $27.95
Reviewed by John Hood
Television can be not only entertaining but educational, as long as you are not seeking great depth or elaborate argumentation. That means that it’s possible to adapt excellent writing for television but not the reverse. In Money & Power: The History [...]

1May2002 | Howard Means | 0 comments | Continued

The Inventive Period

Andrew Bernstein teaches philosophy at Pace University and is working on a book, The Capitalist Manifesto.
An issue of American Heritage (November 1999), a magazine devoted to analyzing important cultural issues in U.S. history, contains an article that provides ample clues to the true nature of late nineteenth-century America. The piece, “People of Progress,” features the [...]

1Apr2001 | Andrew Bernstein | 0 comments | Continued