A little over a century ago, in 1916, legendary robber baron John D. Rockefeller became the world’s first billionaire — probably. Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring the ...
1. Prelude -- 2. "... glorious Yankee Doodle" -- 3. Bandit capitalism -- 4. Wrenchings -- 5. Mega-machine -- 6. The first mass consumer society -- 7. Paper tigers ...