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Fortune 500 and Wall Street Leviathans

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As one of the founders of institutional economics Thorstein Veblen had an evolutionary view. He observed that the corporate sphere, “has visibly come be to be the main controlling factor in the established order of things.”

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Magnuson, J. (2018). Fortune 500 and Wall Street Leviathans. In: Financing the Apocalypse. Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04720-7_3

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