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The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom
Foundation for Economic Education
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.
HN people offer it as a free-market counterpoint to the standard robber baron narrative.
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