State Control of Trade and Commerce offers a clear history of how laws and court decisions shaped price-setting and market conduct in the U.S. and Britain.
This edition surveys essential topics like monopolies, conspiracies, and restraints on trade, tracing how concepts evolved from English statutes to American law and how key cases influenced policy and practice.
Readers will gain a grounded view of criminal and civil approaches to regulating prices, the limits of labor and business combinations, and the idea of public interest in free markets. The book connects ancient statutes to Revolutionary-era actions and looks at how later decisions treated conspiracy, antitrust reforms, and regulatory acts.
- Defines terms such as forestalling, regrating, engrossing, and the notion of monopolies.
- Explains how English and American laws treated conspiracies to fix prices and to restrain trade.
- Discusses major cases and statutes that shaped views on labor rights, price control, and public interest.
Ideal for readers of legal history, economic policy, and those seeking context for modern antitrust debates.