Editing Big business (section)

==Criticism of big business==
The social consequences of the concentration of economic power in the hands of those persons controlling "big business" has been a constant concern both of economists and of politicians since the end of the 19th century. Various attempts have been made to investigate the effects of "bigness" upon labor, consumers, and investors, as well as upon prices and competition. "Big business" has been accused of a wide variety of misdeeds that range from the [[Exploitation of labour|exploitation]] of the working class to the corruption of politicians<ref name="Ramirez and Lewis 2018" /> and the fomenting of war. Attitudes toward big business have fluctuated; Americans generally had a favorable view of big business in the 1950s, which would worsen drastically in a generation later.<ref> Sicilia, David B., 'The Corporation Under Siege: Social Movements, Regulation, Public Relations, and Tort Law since the Second World War', in Kenneth Lipartito, and David B. Sicilia (eds), Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture (Oxford, 2004; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Sept. 2007), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251902.003.0008, accessed 30 May 2024. </ref>

===Influence over government===
{{See also|Corporatocracy}}
Corporate concentration can lead to influence over government in areas such as tax policy, trade policy, environmental policy, foreign policy, and labor policy through [[lobbying]]. In 2005, the majority of Americans believed that big business has "too much power in Washington."<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.cato.org/research/articles/cpr28n4-1.html
| author = Timothy P. Carney | date = 2 July 2006| title = Big Business and Big Government}}</ref>