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[N]o one may be trusted with much power--no person, no faction, no nation, no religious body, no corporation, no labor union,… no organization of any kind. [H. Simons, Economic Policy for a Free Society, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948, p. 241.]
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Some excellent examples are: (a) A. A. Berle, Power, New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1967; (b) A. Cox, P. Furlong, and E. Page, Power in Capitalist Societies: Theory, Explanations,and Cases, New York: St. Martin’s, 1985; (c) J. K. Galbraith, The Anatomy of Power, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983; (d) N. Cousins, The Pathology of Power, New York: Norton, 1987; and (e) W. Adams and J. W. Brock, The Bigness Complex,New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
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“Control” in the sense of ability to decide how property can be used subject to statutory and case law.
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Peterson, R.D. (1991). Power. In: Political Economy and American Capitalism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3874-1_3
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