MAKERS AND TAKERS: How Wealth and Progress Are Made and How They Are Taken Away or Prevented/ by Edmund Contoski

BOOK XII

This book examines the history of using the economics means (production) versus the political means (plunder) for obtaining the benefits of property.

"When States Fail" by Edward Stringham
http://shurl.org/mAPvd

"The Truth About the 'Robber Barons' " by Thomas DiLorenzo
http://shurl.org/JtGNK