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Why We Stopped Believing in Big Corporations (Interview)

Louis Hyman teaches history at Cornell University,  At the 2014 annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians he spoke with HNN about his new research into the evolution of the corporation since the 1960s.  In the interview he discusses the reason Americans stopped believing in the virtuousness of corporations.