American Fair Trade - Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, New Competition, 1890 1940

List of contents

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.

About the author

Laura Phillips Sawyer is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, where she teaches in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Her work has appeared in Business History Review, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and Capital Gains.

Summary

American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to create codes of fair competition that reshaped both public and private regulatory power.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Phillips Sawyer, Laura Phillips (Harvard Business School) Sawyer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781107434073
• ISBN: 978-1-107-43407-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, HISTORY / General, 20th Century, North America, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LAW / Commercial / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LAW / Corporate, LAW / Antitrust, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, United States of America, USA, North America (USA and Canada), History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Company, commercial & competition law, Company, commercial and competition law: general, Competition law / Antitrust law