Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992

Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speech. This imagery has retained its appeal in myriad aspects of public policy--for example, Senator Sherman''s Anti-Trust Act of 1890, Justice Holmes''s metaphorical marketplace of ideas, and President Reagan''s rhetoric of deregulation.In Competition P...