All Posts Tagged With: "Rockefeller"
Who Owes What to Whom?
Note: This column first appeared in the February 2002 issue of The Freeman. For a society that has fed, clothed, housed, cared for, informed, entertained, and otherwise enriched more people at higher levels than any in the history of the planet, there sure is a lot of groundless guilt in America. Manifestations of that guilt [...]
24Apr2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 8 comments | ContinuedMoney & 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: [...]
1May2002 | Howard Means | 0 comments | ContinuedTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
Random House • 1998 • 774 pages • $30.00 D. T. Armentano, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Hartford, is the author of Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure. For me, this is the image that sticks: John D. Rockefeller, president of Standard Oil, age 57, in bicycle suit and goggles, [...]
1Jan1999 | D. T. Armentano | 0 comments | Continued-
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