National Competition Policy: Historians' Perspectives on Antitrust and Government-Business Relationships in the United States

摘要

This volume provides a substantially edited transcription of a series of seminars focusing, as the title indicates, on historians' perspectives on antitrust and government-business relationships. The speakers were historians specializing in economic and business issues, whose mission was to show what history might have to say to today's antitrust policy planners. About 25 FTC attorneys and economists participated in the seminars and the give-and-take between speakers and participants was lively and relevant to present concerns. The seminars demonstrate, in particular, that antitrust is but a part of the larger picture of business-government relations and that the role of antitrust has repeatedly expanded or declined in accord with other features of the political landscape.