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Who are the Robber Barons? ● WE MAKE Wealthy industrialists ● Extremely powerful IT RAIN ● Believed in creation of large, consolidated, organization ● Some came from rags to riches What does a monopoly look like? ● When a single company is in control of an entire industry ● No competition ● Company can increase or decrease prices if desired ● Example: Andrew Carnegie’s company: Carnegie Steel Real Life Applications of Monopoly ● Every man for himself ● Try to buy other people’s property ● Attempt to make everyone else bankrupt ● Tend to use very forceful and vulgar techniques ● The strongest survives Robber Barons Use Economic Philosophies to Rationalize the Existence of Monopolies Economic Philosophies: Social Darwinism ● Only the fittest survive and flourish ● Attracted many industrialists like Carnegie ● Legitimized the success of leading businessmen ● Believed Government-controlled economy would fail
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