in which people who accrued great wealth accrued great influence over the course of the United States. This system went on to define the Gilded Age. Thompson: In the introduction of The Republic ...

The same market logics that defined the Gilded Age of the early 20th century have quietly returned in our own century, with ...

The wealth gap "raises questions about the efficacy of democratic institutions and the ability of the government to regulate corporate behavior in the public interest." While the first Gilded Age ...

Library of Congress During the "Gilded Age," every man was a potential Andrew Carnegie, and Americans who achieved wealth celebrated it as never before. In New York, the opera, the theatre ...

“There are some promising signs, but if we don't continue down that path, we are already essentially in a new Gilded Age,” says Tamir ... The wage gap continues to widen among larger companies ...

The genius of the Gilded Age was interstate regulatory and tax competition ... Government became a system for wealth redistribution through subsidies, unfunded mandates, and government-created ...

The Gilded Age was a fractious time, and amidst growing wealth and opulence, a sense of desperation and resentment emerged. I think the wealthy felt some anxiety at the thought that at some point ...

But the railroads depended on a system of insider dealing, corruption, and stock manipulation, in which people who accrued ...