Research Catalog

Title

Public policies toward business / by Clair Wilcox Ph.D., Joseph Wharton professor of political economy, Swarthmore College.

Author

Wilcox, Clair, 1898-1970

Publication

Homewood, Illinois : Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1960.

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Details

Additional Authors

Richard D. Irwin, Inc., publisher.

Description

xiv pages, 907 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Irwin series in economics

Uniform Title

Irwin series in economics.

Subject

• Industrial policy > United States
• Competition
• Antitrust law
• Industrial policy
• Wettbewerbsrecht
• Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Part I. Government and business. Public control of business -- Methods and limits of control -- Part II. Maintaining competition. The antitrust laws -- The task of antitrust -- Enforcement of antitrust -- Interpretation of antitrust -- Patents, copyrights, and trade-marks -- Prevention of fraud -- Exclusion and discrimination -- Delivered pricing -- Antitrust appraised -- Part III. Moderating competition. Departures from antitrust -- Curbs to competition in distribution -- Control of natural resources -- Promotion and subsidization -- Control of agriculture -- Government and labor -- How much competition? -- Part IV. Substituting regulation for competition. The task of regulation -- The rate level -- The rate structure -- Regulation of public utilities -- Regulation of transport monopoly -- Regulation of transport competition -- Regulation of radio and television -- Direct controls in wartime -- Comprehensive price controls -- Regulation appraised -- Part V. Substituting public for private enterprise. Fields of public enterprise -- Public power projects -- Development of atomic energy -- Problems of public enterprise.

LCCN

60006710

OCLC

• ocm00268752
• 268752
• SCSB-383963

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library