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This essay points to the end of (direct)crony capitalism at the national level and the shift in the possibility of political initiative to the Kabupaten capitalists, and the initiatives can be different or even contradictory among local capitalists. The essay speculates in the negative. The essays points to the labour movement as having greater potential, although that arena is also full of complications.

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He was hated, feared, and admired. The country's second-richest man at the time of his death, John D. MacArthur (1897-1978) also became one of its great benefactors. Every year, some two dozen American writers, artists, intellectuals, and scientists receive as much as a half million dollars in grants known as the 'genius awards' from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. But MacArthur was not the benevolent figure you might expect. Stingier than J. Paul Getty, as money-obsessed as Howard Hughes, and as ruthless as Cornelius Vanderbilt, MacArthur was one of the most multi-layered men in business history. Now, in this first full biography of John D. MacArthur as he really was, Nancy Kriplen reveals the man behind the myth - the often vulgar, sometimes unethical, always ambitious rogue who would become one of America's wealthiest men."The Eccentric Billionaire" chronicles how MacArthur amassed his fortune, rising from a poverty-saturated childhood as the son of a fire-and-brimstone preacher to become an insurance and real estate mogul.

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Silent Partners restores women to their part in the story of Englands Financial Revolution. Women were active participants in Londons first stock market beginning in the 1690s and on through the eighteenth century. Whether playing the State lottery, investing in government funds for retirement, or speculating in company stocks, women regularly comprised between a fifth and a third of public investors. These female investors ranged from London servants to middling tradeswomen, on up to provincial gentlewomen and peeresses of the realm. There was, however, no single female investor type, rather some women ran risks and speculated in stocks while others sought out low risk, low return options for their retirement years. Not only did women invest for themselves, their financial knowledge and ability meant that family members often relied on wives, sisters, and aunts to act as their investing agents. Moreover, female creditors not only benefited themselves and their families, they also aided the nation. Womens capital was a critical component of Britains rise to economic, military, and colonial dominance in the eighteenth century. Focusing on the period between 1690 and 1750, and utilizing womens account books and financial correspondence, as well as the records of joint-stock companies, the Bank of England, and the Exchequer, Silent Partners provides the first comprehensive overview of the significant role women played in the birth of financial capitalism in Britain.