1/ IIRC Standard Oil was a piss poor "monopoly", continuously being out-competed by upstarts which underpriced them, forcing S.O. to continuously acquire said competitors to maintain their prices, which further incentivized would-be founders >>>https://twitter.com/StephenFleming/status/1266375283482845186 …
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7/ No, I got woke to the PQ over several years, from a lot of scattered reading, about 30 years ago. Can't recommend a short bibliography, unfortunately.
@AmityShlaes on the late Progressive era / Depression is excellent tho https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000ROKXXI/ https://twitter.com/Auberon_Quin/status/1266377724056100874 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Titan by Chernow made some points about Standard not really being a monopoly iirc.
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The Progressive era was a horrible, horrible mistake. You haven't even mentioned legalizing income tax yet...
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The books also seem to drop the fact that under the Constitution the states are sovereign entities, that’s why they’re called states, not districts or departments.
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