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Book: Back on the Road to Serfdom: The Resurgence of Statism
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  1. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Back on the Road to Serfdom:

    Government departments are arranged hierarchically; those at the top are used to issuing orders and expect them to be carried out by their subordinates right down the line. Minow assumed that a cultural institution like television has a similar hierarchical structure, as if television executives could requisition more creative programming the way a bureaucrat orders new pencils or department stationery.
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  2. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Back on the Road to Serfdom:

    Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.
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  3. Thomas E. Woods Jr. _ Back on the Road to Serfdom:

    No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.
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