Burt Folsom Argues Gilded Age “Robber Barons” Were Entrepreneurs
Foundation for Economic Education · Lecture · 1 h 5 min · 2011 · YouTube title: The Myth of the Robber Barons with Burt Folsom
Why it's here
HN people offer it as a free-market counterpoint to the standard robber baron narrative.
What it covers
Hillsdale historian Burt Folsom lectures at a 2011 seminar on the 'robber barons' of the Gilded Age. He argues that figures like Vanderbilt and Rockefeller were market entrepreneurs rather than monopolists.