1. Prelude -- 2. "... glorious Yankee Doodle" -- 3. Bandit capitalism -- 4. Wrenchings -- 5. Mega-machine -- 6. The first mass consumer society -- 7. Paper tigers ...

All made fortunes in the free enterprise system and were passionate believers in market capitalism and self-reliance. Yet the philanthropic remains of their riches have been hijacked by special ...

Philanthropy, no longer merely an expansion of good Samaritanism, now resembles an exact science. The famed Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundations apply the precision of the laboratory to the study of ...

Early entrepreneurs who built business empires include John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie. Thomas Edison founded General Electric (GE), while Henry Ford ...

Ford. Rockefeller. Carnegie. JP Morgan. These are names that remain institutions in America and elsewhere, pioneers who had neither inkling nor a knowing in their bodies that their acts would change ...

A little over a century ago, in 1916, legendary robber baron John D. Rockefeller became the world’s first billionaire — probably. Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring the ...