If you think this book can rewrite the history of the latter half of the nineteenth century, you’re sadly mistaken. (Yes, I know there were some NOBLE industrialists as well, Andrew Carnegie, and Milton Hersey immediately come to mind.)
I won’t talk about the railroads, mines, factory-working conditions, etc; how about where it effects people like you most?: your pocketbook.
Do support the idea that monopolies are a good thing and represent survival of the fittest??
The market can be and IS manipulated by both the participants therein as well as government. Most of government intervention is aimed at preventing adverse manipulation by unscrupulous market entities!