American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition, ' 1890-1940

ISBN-13: 9781107434073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 392 str.

Laura Phillips Sawyer

Opis

Shows how, in the decades prior to the Great Depression, associations of independent proprietors partnered with federal regulators to create codes of fair competition.

Recenzje

'This is a fine work of legal history and business history, and it makes an important contribution to the literature on this formative period in the development of the American regulatory state.' Eric Hilt, Business History Review

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: American competition: trade associations, codes of fair competition, and state building; 1. Contracts and competition in an era of economic uncertainty, 1880–1890; 2. The origins of American fair trade: the Sherman Antitrust Act and conflicting interpretations of law, 1890–1911; 3. The economics and ideology of American fair trade: Louis Brandeis, resale price maintenance, and open price associations, 1911–1919; 4. Institutionalizing the 'new competition', 1920–1928: Herbert Hoover and the adaptation of regulated competition; 5. California fair trade: constitutional federalism and competing visions of fairness in antitrust law, 1929–1933; 6. Managing competition in the Great Depression: between associational and state corporatism, 1929–1938; Conclusion: varieties of competition and corporatism in American governance; Bibliography; Case index; Subject index.