Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act

William Letwin's thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the "correct" level of competition in the economy. This is a superb history and complete analysis of the Act, from its English and American common law antecedents to the events that led to the first revisions of the Act in the form of the Clayton Antitrust and Federal Trade Commission Acts.Letwin, William is the author of 'Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act', published 1980 under ISBN 9780313226519 and ISBN 0313226512.