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Author Berk, Gerald

Title Louis D. Brandeis and the making of regulated competition, 1900-1932 / Gerald Berk
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 282 pages) : illustrations, forms
Contents Creative syncretism -- Republican experimentalism and regulated competition -- Learning from railroad regulation -- The origins of an ambiguous federal trade commission -- Cultivational governance at the federal trade commission -- Deliberative polyarchy and developmental associations -- From collective action to collaborative learning : developmental association in commercial printing -- The politics of accountability -- Civic enterprise
Summary This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the United States. Whereas most scholars cast the politics of industrialization in the progressive era as a narrow choice between breaking up and regulating the large corporation, Berk reveals a third way: regulated competition. In this framework, the government steered economic development away from concentrated power by channeling competition from predation to improvements in products and production processes. Louis Brandeis conceptualized regulated competition and introduced it into public debate. Poli
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Brandeis, Louis D., 1856-1941
SUBJECT Brandeis, Louis D., 1856-1941 fast
Subject Trade regulation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Antitrust law -- United States -- History -- 20th century
LAW -- Taxation.
Antitrust law
Trade regulation
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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