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Notes 289Chapter 17. Enterprise Obstructions to DemocracyOn the corporation as a fictitious person, see William G. Roy, SocializingCapital: The Rise of the Large Industrial Corporation inAmerica (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996).The striking estimate of U.S. government land gifts to railroadsis from Paul Johnson, A History of the American People (NewYork: HarperCollins, 1997), 534.A fuller development of the privileged position of business is inCharles E. Lindblom, Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems (New York: Basic Books, 1977), chapter 13. Seealso Time’s series on corporate welfare (November 9, 16, and 30,1998). The words of the Dutch minister of economic affairs aretranslated from Parliamentary Proceedings 1994–95, pp. 5085–88, 86th assembly, June 13, 1995.For more on the relation between enterprise and democracy,see Neil J. Mitchell, The Conspicuous Corporation: Business,Public Policy, and Representative Democracy (Ann Arbor: Universityof Michigan Press, 1997); David Vogel, Kindred Strangers:The Uneasy Relationship Between Politics and Business in America(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996); Kim Mc-Quaid, Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics,1945–1990 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994);and Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, The CommandingHeights (New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1998).See also an interesting analysis of entrepreneurs turning awayfrom hostility to democracy in Leigh A. Payne, Brazilian Industrialistsand Democratic Change: The Battle Between Governmentand the Marketplace That Is Remaking the Modern World (Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).Chapter 18. Alternative Market ChoicesAn informative set of studies on what lies ahead, with special attentionto the Information Revolution, which is compared withthe Industrial Revolution, is William E. Halal and Kenneth B. Taylor,editors, Twenty-First Century Economics: Perspectives of Economicsfor a Changing World (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998).