Author: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1108548040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rather than viewing the history of American capitalism as the unassailable ascent of large-scale corporations and free competition, American Fair Trade argues that trade associations of independent proprietors lobbied and litigated to reshape competition policy to their benefit. At the turn of the twentieth century, this widespread fair trade movement borrowed from progressive law and economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness - not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition and influenced the administrative state's public-private approach to market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. Laura Phillips Sawyer analyzes how these efforts to reconcile the American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age of laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 32
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 718
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2004-09-30
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 0141941316
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An acerbic, withering account of the ascent of the Bush family to the pinnacle of the American political and social elite and the implications of the dynasty's hold on power for democracy in America. With an unerring instinct for fakery and humbug,Phillips traces the convoluted trail of Bush mendacity through three generations. The picture he paints of a family willing to do ANYTHING to hold power and a country so craven as to vote for it is both very funny and completely dismaying in equal measure.