Mitos da história - Robber barons

The widely-accepted "history" of America's Gilded Age was grossly inaccurate, but it told a compelling story that many fell for hook, line, and sinker.

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How the Myth of the 'Robber Barons' Began—and Why It Persists | Burton W. Folsom

Free markets worked well; government intervention usually failed. Why is it, then, that for so many years, most historians have been teaching the opposite lesson? They have made no distinction between political entrepreneurs, who tried to succeed through federal aid, and market entrepreneurs, who av...