Louis D. Brandeis and the Making of Regulated Competition, 1900-1932

by Gerald Berk

Book Overview

This book provides an innovative interpretation of industrialization and statebuilding in the United States. Whereas most scholars cast the politics of industrialization in the progressive era as a narrow choice between breaking up and regulating the large corporation, Berk reveals a third way: regulated competition. In this framework, the government steered economic development away from concentrated power by channeling competition from predation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107405084
• ISBN13: 9781107405080
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"