1. So far from the 1980s being the age of greed in the USA it was an era of remarkable charitable giving, see R. Bartley, The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again (New York: Free Press, 1994) p. 5.
2. The Keiretsu in Japan, a complex system of interlocking directorships, prevents takeovers in that country. For the Japanese banking and financial systems, see M. Flaherty and I. Hiroyuki, ‘The Banking-Industrial Complex’, in D. Okimoto and T. Roblen (eds) Inside the Japanese System (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).
3. For criticisms of the takeover mechanisms see essays by L. Newton and P. Steidlmeier, in W. Hoffman, R. Frederick and E. Petry (eds) The Ethics of Organizational Transformation: Mergers, Takeovers and Corporate Restructuring (New York: Quorum Books, 1989).
4. The record of government investment in economy in the UK is dismal, see J. Burton, Picking Losers? (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 1983).
5. The work of the Austrian economists has advanced our understanding of the market process, see especially, L. von Mises, Human Action (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963)