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Robber baron is a term first applied by 19th century muckrakers and others as social criticism to certain wealthy, powerful, and unethical 19th-century American businessmen. The term appeared in that use as early as the August 1870 issue of The Atlantic Monthly [ 1 ] magazine.
Legendary Raubritter Eppelein von Gailingen (1311–1381) during his escape from Nuremberg Castle. A robber baron or robber knight (German: Raubritter) was an unscrupulous feudal landowner who, protected by his fief's legal status, imposed high taxes and tolls out of keeping with the norm without authorization by some higher authority.
The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists, 1861–1901. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. Klein, Maury (1997). The Life and Legend of Jay Gould. The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801857713. Klein, Maury. "Jay Gould: A Revisionist Interpretation". Business and Economic History 2d ser., 15 (1986): 55–68. JSTOR 23702860.
He presided over the end of the “robber baron” era, a time when rich industrialists exerted extraordinary control over the US economy through monopolies and other extortive practices.
The Gilded Age was also an era of poverty, [3] [4] ... Charles Crocker, and Cornelius Vanderbilt would sometimes be labeled "robber barons" by their critics, ...
Robber baron may refer to: Robber baron (feudalism), an unscrupulous medieval landowner; Robber baron (industrialist), term for unscrupulous 19th-century American ...
"The Big Four" was the name popularly given to the famous and influential businessmen, and railroad tycoons — also called robber barons — who funded the Central Pacific Railroad (C.P.R.R.), which formed the western portion through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built ...
President Joe Biden on Wednesday warned that a new gilded age of “robber barons” was in danger of eroding Americans’ hard-won freedoms unless the government takes steps to ensure that the ...