Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992: History, Rhetoric, Law (USED)

Description: Product Description : Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992: History, Rhetoric, Law Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise freedom of contract free labor free trade and free speech This imagery has retained its appeal in myriad aspects of public policyfor example Senator Shermans AntiTrust Act of 1890 Justice Holmess metaphorical marketplace of ideas and President Reagans rhetoric of deregulationIn Competition Policy in America 18881992 Rudolph Peritz explores the durability of free competition imagery by tracing its influences on public policy Looking at congressional debates and hearings administrative agency activities court opinions arguments of counsel and economic legal and political scholarship he finds that free competition has actually evoked two different visionsfreedom not only from oppressive government but also from private economic power He shows how the discourse of free competition has mediated between commitments to individual liberty and rough equalitythemselves unstable over time This rhetorical approach allows us to understand for example that the Reagan and Carter programs of deregulation both inspired by the rhetoric of free competition were driven by fundamentally different visions of political economyPeritzs historical inquiry into competition policy as a series of government directives inspired by two complex yet distinct and sometimes contradictory visions of free competition provides an indispensable framework for understanding modern political economy whether political campaign finance reform corporate takeover regulation or current attitudes toward the New Deal Legacy Competition Policy in America will be of great interest to lawyers historians economists sociologists and policy makers in both government and business( it is an used product )

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