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The antimonopoly fervency in America traces back to Andrew Jackson and earlier. Hofstadter locates it in a culture of “farmers and small-town entrepreneurs—ambitious, mobile, speculative, antiauthoritarian, egalitarian, and competitive.”
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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By the eighteenth century, a new ideology was taking form, especially in Britain, that “greed is good” (to use a recent summary formulation), because greed spurs a society’s efforts and inventiveness. By giving vent to greed, the logic goes, societies can best harness the insatiable ambitions, great energies and ingenuity of their citizens. While g
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
In the arc of history, the freedom to explore the possibilities of our lives is a relatively recent phenomenon.