Regulating Big Business

Abstract

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The response to big business: the formative era, 1880-1914 -- The social milieu and the market -- Self-regulation vs.government intervention -- The contrastiong patterns of bussiness structure -- The causes and consequences of managerial centerlization -- 2 The divergence of economic thought -- Popular opinion before the marger wave -- The professional economist's responese before the marger wave -- The impact of the great merger wave:popular opinion -- The merger wave and professional economists -- 3 The political response -- The divergence of legal ruless before the merger wave -- The politics of government intervention and the merger wave -- Post merger-wave britain:business self-regulation takes hold -- Post merger-wave america: the bureaucratization of antitrust -- 4 The courts respond to big business -- The british"rule of reasonableness -- The american"rule of reason -- Judicial activism and self-restraint -- The comparative role of lawyers within the business order -- 5 The impact of World War I, 1914-1921 -- War-time cooperation,pressure groups, and governmental policy -- Pressure groups and changing economic thought -- Law, pressure groups, and the standing committee on trusts -- The vicissitudes of american antitrust enforcement -- 6 Tentative convergence, 1921-1948 -- The new parameters of comparative business structure -- Pressure groups and changing economic thought -- Law and the differing impact of pressure groups -- American influence, international cartels, and the revival of antitrust 1942-1948 -- 7 A British antimonopoly policy emerges, 1940-1948 -- Defenders of cartelization vs. promoters of competition, 1940-1942 -- Planning for postwar employment and the gaitskell-allen memorandum, 1942-1943