Robber barons

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Robber baron may mean:

  • Robber baron, German nobles who levied illegal tolls in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
  • Robber baron (industrialist), a pejorative term for certain 19th to early 20th century American industrialists.
    • The Robber Barons (book), a 1934 book about the American industrialists by Matthew Josephson.
  • The Robber Barons (band), an alternative country band from San Francisco, California.
  • Business oligarch, business magnates in Russia accused of using unsavory methods in the post-Soviet era.