Antitrust After Populism
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
3-1-2013
Abstract
This chapter examines the decline of the antitrust movement in the United States. It analyzes Richard Hofstadter's What Happened to the Antitrust Movement? that concerns the disappearance of the movement just as it attained greater power as a regulator of industry structure and conduct. It considers the two arguments that Hofstadter believed to had happened that led to the decline: businesses had fit much more comfortably into the landscape of public opinion, and antitrust became much more technical and began to speak the language of economists.
Keywords
antitrust movement, Richard Hofstadter, What Happened to the Antitrust Movement, industry structure
Publication Title
The Making of Competition Policy: Legal and Economic Sources
Repository Citation
Hovenkamp, Herbert, "Antitrust After Populism" (2013). Book Chapters. 34.
https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_chapters/34
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199782796.003.0007
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199782796.003.0007