American Fair Trade : Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940 (Hardcover)

Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: American competition: trade associations, codes of fair competition, and state building; 1. Contracts and competition in an era of economic uncertainty, 1880?1890; 2. The origins of American fair trade: the Sherman Antitrust Act and conflicting interpretations of law, 1890?1911; 3. The economics and ideology of American fair trade: Louis Brandeis, resale price maintenance, and open price associations, 1911?1919; 4. Institutionalizing the 'new competition', 1920?1928: Herbert Hoover and the adaptation of regulated competition; 5. California fair trade: constitutional federalism and competing visions of fairness in antitrust law, 1929?1933; 6. Managing competition in the Great Depression: between associational and state corporatism, 1929?1938; Conclusion: varieties of competition and corporatism in American governance; Bibliography; Case index; Subject index.