Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992 History, Rhetoric, Law

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ISBN: 9780195074611 | 0195074610
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Copyright: 2/1/1996

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In this book Peritz analyzes how free competition has signified bothfreedom from oppressive goverment and freedom from private economic power.Peritz shows how these two complex yet distinct and sometimes contradictoryimages have influenced government policy and continue to inspire public debateover political economy in America.

Introduction

(6)

Public Debate About Competition Policy, 1888-1911: Free Competition and Freedom of Contract

(50)

The Sherman Act Debates, 1888-1890: From Concerns about Industrial Liberty and Fair Price to a Statute with Common-law Language and Uncommon Remedies

(13)

The Sherman Act in the Federal Courts, 1890-1911: Cartels and Labor Unions, Trusts and the Limits of Majoritarianism

(33)

The Era of Cooperative Competition, 1911-1933: Trade and Labor Associations, Political Majorities, and Speech Rights

(52)

The Political Economy of Political Majorities

(12)

The Political Economy of Trade Associations

(14)

The Political Economy of Labor Associations

(11)

The Political Economy of Speech: ``Free Trade in Ideas''

100

(6)

Epilogue: The Emergence of Postclassical Economics

106

(5)

The New Deal's Political Economy, 1933-1948: From Organic Body Politic to Unified Body Economic

111

(70)

The Early New Deal, 1933-1935: The National Industrial Recovery Act and an Organic Body Politic

115

(27)

The Later New Deal, 1935-1948: The Consumer and a Unified Body Economic

142

(36)

American Political Economy after the Close of the Second World War

178

(3)

Competition, Pluralism, and the Problem of Persistent Oligarchy, 1948-1967

181

(48)

Economic and Political Discourses of Competition

182

(9)

Jurisprudential Currents: The Processes of Pluralism as Consensus

191

(4)

Congress and Industrial Concentration: Anti-Merger Legislation as Compromise

195

(4)

The Supreme Court's Competition Policies: Genealogies of Agreement, Images of the Market, and a Commitment to Equality

199

(30)

Rhetorics of Free Competition, 1968-1980: Efficiency, Property Rights, and Equality

229

(36)

The Nixon-Ford Years, 1968-1976: Industrial Concentration, the Marketplace of Ideas, and the Ascendancy of Chicago-School Law and Economics

231

(20)

The Carter Years, 1977-1980: Deregulation, Populism, and Efficiency Logics

251

(14)

Rhetorics of Free Competition, 1980-1992: Free Market Imagery, Corporate Control, and the Problem of Equality

265

(36)

The Federal Trade Commission: From ``Social'' to ``Economic'' Regulation

271

(1)

Antitrust Law: From Regulation of Commercial Competition to Restraint of Political Power

272

(10)

The Theory of PluPerfect Competition: Contestable Markets

282

(2)

Corporations and Securities Law: The New Site for Commercial Competition Policy

284

(6)

The Marketplace of Ideas: Property Rights and the Problem of Equality

290

(11)

Concluding Thoughts: On the Limits of Competition Policy

301

(4)

Afterword. The New Economy at Century's End: Market Access, Innovation, and Being Bill Gates

305

(26)

Notes

331

(66)

Index

397

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