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Capitalists and financiers

Charles in Charge

From Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, published this month by Simon and Schuster. Every quarter, the business leaders from Koch Industries’ various divisions…

Emerald Sea

by Robert P. Baird,

The making and unmaking of a half-billion-dollar treasure hunt

The New China Syndrome

by Barry C. Lynn,

American business meets its new master

The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

by Rebecca Solnit,

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…