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Rise of Big Business
Term | Definition |
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Capitalism | an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. |
Free enterprise | an economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control. |
Communism | a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. |
Social Darwinism | the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. |
Corporation | a company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. |
Trust | 1. firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. 2. confidence placed in a person by making that person the nominal owner of property to be held or used for the benefit of one or more others. |
Monopoly | the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service. |
Vertical Integration | the combination in one company of two or more stages of production normally operated by separate companies. |
Horizontal Integration | a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike - either complementary or competitive. |
Cornelius Vanderbilt | an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his wealth in railroads and shipping. |
George Pullman | an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it. |
Horatio Alger Jr. | a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. |
Andrew Carnegie | a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. |
John D. Rockefeller | an American business magnate and philanthropist. |