Antitrust and Global Capitalism, 1930-2004 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521747271)

The international spread of antitrust suggested the historical process shaping global capitalism. By the 1930s, Americans feared that big business exceeded the government's capacity to impose accountability, engendering the most aggressive antitrust campaign in history. Meanwhile, big business had emerged to varying degrees in liberal Britain, Australia and France, Nazi Germany, and militarist Japan. These same nations nonetheless expressly rejected American-style antitrust as unsuited to their cultures and institutions. After World War II, however, governments in these nations--as well as the European Community--adopted workable antitrust regimes. By the millennium antitrust was instrumental to the clash between state sovereignty and globalization. What ideological and institutional factors explain the global change from opposing to supporting antitrust? Addressing this question, this book throws new light on the struggle over liberal capitalism during the Great Depression and World War II, the postwar Allied Occupations of Japan and Germany, the reaction against American big-business hegemony during the Cold War, and the clash over globalization and the WTO.

Author: Tony A. Freyer
ISBN-10: 0521747279
ISBN-13: 9780521747271
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/19/2009
Pages: 452
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.20d