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The Hidden History of Monopolies
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The Hidden History of Monopolies

by Thom Hartmann
August 2020
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 43m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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The popular mind is agitated with problems that may disturb social order, and among them all none is more threatening than the inequality of condition, of wealth, and opportunity that has grown within a single generation out of the concentration of capital into vast combinations to control production and trade and to break down competition.Senator John Sherman, 1890, speaking of his Sherman Antitrust Act

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ISBN: 9781523087754