Who Owns America?: A New Declaration of IndependenceHerbert Agar, Allen Tate ISI Books, 1999 - 450 pages "It was a radical statement in 1936 and remains one at the end of the twentieth century. How should a republic exercise power over its citizens? How may economic goods be justly distributed? What status should the small farm have in the life of a nation? By what means may family life be rendered stable? What is the economic role of women in a free society? These are just some of the issues raised, and answered in unique ways, in this book. |
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... independent businesses to power trusts , oil empires , and inter- locking directorates . It was a shift from private ownership , with constitutional liberties , to stock pyramiding under labor con- ditions that often enough were ...
... independent businesses to power trusts , oil empires , and inter- locking directorates . It was a shift from private ownership , with constitutional liberties , to stock pyramiding under labor con- ditions that often enough were ...
Page 95
... independent of natural law and more ruthless in their competition with private citizens than was ever contemplated in their original statutory authorizations , and they are much more difficult to restrain or control than would be the ...
... independent of natural law and more ruthless in their competition with private citizens than was ever contemplated in their original statutory authorizations , and they are much more difficult to restrain or control than would be the ...
Page 385
... independent business concerns by Big Business , which lovers of freedom had fought with bitterness , increased tenfold during the twenties . Hence the fate of an employee in one of these big concerns is surely a good case study of ...
... independent business concerns by Big Business , which lovers of freedom had fought with bitterness , increased tenfold during the twenties . Hence the fate of an employee in one of these big concerns is surely a good case study of ...
Contents
A FORGOTTEN AMERICAN CLASSIC | ix |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | xli |
David Cushman Coyle | 9 |
Copyright | |
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