“If we seriously study entrepreneurs, the state, and the rise of big business in the United States, we will have to sacrifice the Marxist-inspired morality play of ‘greedy businessmen’ fleecing the public…But, in return, we will have a better understanding of the past and a sounder basis for building our future” — historian Burton W. Folsom in the fantastic concluding chapter titled “Entrepreneurs vs the Historians” in the 8th edition of his classic book, The Myth of the Robber Barons, available here: https://amzn.to/2PKj1Vi. You don’t know American economic history if you haven’t read it.