"The authors quote a number of luminaries on the dangers of concentrated wealth and its incompatibility with good government — Theodore Roosevelt (p. 80), Louis Brandeis (p. 81-2), Alexis de Tocqueville (p. 77), the 1st-century Greek historian Plutarch (p. 75) (`An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics`), and even the father of the free market, Adam Smith (who warned of "great inequality" where "civil government" is "instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor") (p. 82).