section_heading: Ortački kapitalizam u dijelovima gospodarstva
paragraph_text: Orijentir presuda Vrhovnog suda SAD-a iz 1824. poništila je od države New York odobreni monopol ("pravi model državne velikodušnost") za tada revolucionarnu tehnologiju parobroda.<ref>Styles, T.J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. ISBN 978-0-375-41542-5. "Property requirements for suffrage under New York's constitution of 1777 hardened the culture of rank into law. Two distinct levels of wealth were required to vote, one for state assembly, and a second and higher level for the state senators and governor... [this suffrage scheme fostered] mercantilism, which in the state empowered private parties to carry out activities thought to serve the public interest. The standard reward for such an undertaking was a monopoly—just what Chancellor Livingston sought when he offered to meet a most pressing public need, the need for steamboats...Livingston maneuvered...the monopoly through the legislature ("a veritable model of state munificence," as legal scholar Maurice G. Baxter writes—that gave him the right to seize steamboats the entered New York waters from other states. But Livingston had overreached. With so many inventors and investors interested in the steamboat, the monopoly on served to limit its adoption. The new technology was simply too important for the monopoly to remain unchallenged. (str.39-42)" Na poticaj vrhovnog suda godine 1887. kongres je osnovao državno povjerenstvo (" Interstate Commerce" ) koje imalo premoć nad trgovinom,  s namjerom reguliranja željezničkih « baruna razbojnika". Predsjednik Grover Cleveland imenovao je Thomasa M. Cooleyja, saveznika željeznice, za prvog predsjednika, a dozvola je korištenaza uskraćivanje pristupa novim sudionicima i legalizaciju namještanja cijena.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/opinion/03lee.html?_r=0