Ocupation: Writer
Life: October 3, 1925 - July 31, 2012
Birthday: October 3
Death: July 31
Big oil, big steel, big agriculture avoid the open marketplace. Big corporations fix prices among themselves and thus drive out of business the small entrepreneur. Also, in their conglomerate form, the huge corporations have begun to challenge the very legitimacy of the state.
source: Gore Vidal (1978). “Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976”, Vintage
topic: Oil, Agriculture, Entrepreneur, Big Corporations, Big Oil