The Conflict between Private Monopoly and Good Citizenship
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Railroads, timber, coal and city services give John Graham Brooks concrete examples for an argument about business power and public duty. This lecture on the morals of trade asks why a democracy that makes its own laws so often tolerates their evasion. Brooks traces the problem through frontier habits of independence, the pursuit of wealth as social standing, and workplace rewards that prize results while overlooking how they are obtained.
His central concern is the private control of industries whose privileges depend on the public. He connects railroad interests with resource waste and political corruption, then considers regulation alongside the case for government ownership. The argument moves between observations of American life, accounts of managers and officials, and comparisons with New Zealand.
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Book facts
- Author
- John Graham Brooks
- Reading time
- About 25 minutes
- Pages
- 13
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Essays
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online