Explore how trust and monopoly shaped markets around the world, and how lawmakers tried to curb them.
This edition analyzes the rise of trusts and the ensuing legal battles across Australia, the United States, and other regions. It includes appendices with anti-trust legislation and a substantial bibliography that frames the debates of the era.
- Case studies of large farming and meat-packaging companies and their impact on prices and efficiency
- Discussion of government regulation, acts, and the limits of structural reforms
- Explanations of how trusts operated, the arguments for and against them, and their global implications
- Guidance to further reading through an extensive bibliography and referenced works
Ideal for readers of economic history, regulatory policy, and law, as well as anyone curious about how market power has been addressed around the world.