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The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom
Hillsdale historian Burt Folsom lectures at a 2011 seminar on the 'robber barons' of the Gilded Age. He argues that figures like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller were market entrepreneurs rather than monopolists.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people offer it as a free-market counterpoint to the standard robber baron narrative.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Foundation for Economic Education
- Topic
- gilded age robber barons
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2020
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Sigh. Ideologues drinking and re-drinking their own bathwater. The thesis of this article is nearly opposite of the truth. Capitalism -- the kind we have evolved (call it socio-crony-capitalism) -- has badly wounded free markets. Here's at least a bit of an antidote: [VIDEO]
timtas on Hacker News · 2014-07
In Free markets killed capitalismRecently I have really enjoyed: * Joseph Stiglitz on the introduction of informational mechanisms in Economics [1] * Burton Folsom on the myth of robber barons and the great american entrepreneurs of the 19th century. [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]
rollinDyno on Hacker News · 2020-03
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