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Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise, and Policy Change
Full title: | Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics: Institutions, Expertise, and Policy Change |
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ISBN: | 9780807865347 |
ISBN 10: | 0807865346 |
Authors: | Eisner, Marc Allen. |
Publisher: | University Of North Carolina Press |
Edition: | New edition |
Num. pages: | 320 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2009 |
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Synopsis
Some of the chief aims of President Ronald Reagan's economic agenda were to reduce the "regulatory burden," minimize state intervention, and reinvigorate market mechanisms. Toward these ends, his administration limited antitrust enforcement to technical cases of price-fixing, invoking the doctrine of the Chicago school of economics. In Antitrust and the Triumph of Economics, Marc Eisner shows that the so-called "Reagan revolution" was but an extension of well-established trends. He examines organizational and procedural changes in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Jusice and the Federal Trade Commission that predated the 1980 election and forced the subsequent redefinition of policy.