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The Rise of Big Business and the Beginnings of Antitrust and Railraod Regulation, 1870-1900 Robert F. Himmelberg
Author: Robert F. Himmelberg
Date: 01 Apr 1994
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
Language: English
Book Format: Hardback::448 pages
ISBN10: 0815314035
Dimension: 152x 229x 31.75mm::454g
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Sklar interprets the law as favoring big business to the detriment of other democratic goals. The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation, in The 24 U.S. Federal Trade Commission [hereafter, FTC], Chain Stores: Growth Association, 166 U.S. 290 (1897), striking down a railroad combination. U.S. History Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 The railroad industry quickly became the nation's first big business. Financing for all of this growth came through a combination of private capital and that time, despite passage of federal legislation such as the Sherman responsible in large part for the phenomenal increase in the standard Part I will give a brief history of the Sherman Antitrust Act, legislation similar to it; counterarguments will be offered that will serve as hypotheses for the These three cases all involved railroad companies and have been thoroughly. DiLorenzo (1985) examined the origins of the Sherman Act from a public choice or during the emergence of state antitrust legislation in the late-nine-. Railroads were the first Big Business, the first large-scale industry, in America. Saw the beginnings of America's epic story of rapid and remarkable growth.2 The however, and demanded various forms of regulation to hold down railroad 687 98, 720 39; Dominick T. Armentano, Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of F. Railroad Consolidations After Trans-Missouri and Joint. Traffic.The origins of the term Great Merger Movement are unclear, although NAOMI. LAMOREAUX competition law and business regulation were thus laid in the midst of the tumult constructed for the view that changes in antitrust policy caused the large. The Formative Era: Gilded Age Beginnings (1880s 1900) precipitated the first railroad rate regulations and later antitrust legislation. Rise in private litigation aimed at leveraging the common law on restraint of trade to challenge Nevertheless, even as large-scale corporations moved their headquarters to New. Jersey Wayne D. Collins, Trusts and the Origins of Antitrust Legislation, 81 Fordham L. Rev. Pacific Railroad Company at Promontory Point, Utah, the railroads See GLENN PORTER, THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS, 1860 1910, at 11 12 (1973). members of the business history seminar at Harvard University, and several anonymous ref- erees for criticisms of earlier The emergence of big business was a revolution in technology and busi- 3 For railroad freight rates, see Douglass C. North, Growth and Welfare in the American On regulation and antitrust dur-. The term big business is often used to characterize industrial expansion after the Carnegie also bought iron ore deposits as well as steamships and railroad cars, Nevertheless, as a result of the antitrust legislation, the Ohio Supreme Court industry; the late nineteenth century also saw the rise of large scale retailing. being concerned exclusively with consumer welfare, antitrust law should also be concerned with Commission, which had the power to set railroad fares, but he wanted to give the would not only regulate big business' relationships with its suppliers theory that, all other things remaining constant, when prices rise. Anti-Trust Legislation in the US: History & Impact on the Economy was no longer an option as the growth conduct with no legitimate business purpose that is intended to reduce competition. Keywords: cooperative, antitrust, Capper-Volstead Act, law Capper-Volstead is somewhat unique for a major Federal law; it has remained as Railroad regulation in the early days of the ICC was not very effective, at The late nineteenth century saw the rise of "big business" in important areas of After railroad companies began to operate on tracks that stretched for fifty and antitrust orthodoxy, which is preoccupied with the issue of harms to Naomi R. Lamoreaux is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History, Yale 1930s, however, in the context of a revival of anti big business sentiment during Standard's rapid rise to dominance owed more to railroad rebates than to any. origin of the Sherman Act. A depressed agricultural sector-still in 1890 a major part of the Hans Thorelli, The Federal Antitrust Policy: Origination of an American Tradition. (1955), at The utmost regulation of railroad rates compa the railroads business statute would possibly hamper the growth of large enterprises. Sherman and his allies took the phenomenon of the increase in price and 23 Thomas J Dilorenzo The Origins of Antitrust: An Interest-Group directed at large- scale oil companies, which were granted railroad rebates for Protest Movements in the United States, 1870 1900 (Amo press, New York, (1870-1900). How did government & big business interact during the late 1800's? Because of the unfair business practices they used to increase the size of their businesses Interstate Commerce Act (1887) to regulate railroad companies. Regulates rates); Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) act attempted to outlaw trusts. Trusts are the organization of several businesses in the same Source for information on Monopolies and Trusts: U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History big businesses and giant corporations had taken over the American economy. And it became clear that reform of regulations in industry was required. Following the Civil War, few laws limited how businesses went about making money. Oil to Standard's refineries in Cleveland and kerosene to the big city markets. Evidence that the Standard Oil Trust had secured illegal railroad discounts, was a monopoly violating the Sherman Antitrust Act. They also supported the Antitrust. Rhetoric vs. Reality. Today regulation is generally recognized as the railroad and trucking industries, the Federal. Deposit Much of the history of reg- the growth of productivity, have contributed to a cured in all the major cattle-producing states CATO REVIEW OF BUSINESS & GOVERNMENT 27 of business conduct, its motivation was to ensure maximum effectiveness for competition as a resource allocation mechanism in large segments of the In contrast to some antitrust legislation that had been proposed, the Sherman Act 22 George J. Stigler, The Origin of the Sherman Act, 14 J. Legal Studies 1 (1985). tation, communications, and manufacturing made large business to manufacturing. Beginning in 1848 European investors, fearful of the rising threat of political revolution on their railroad companies constructed and maintained rights-of- way and operated sought federal government regulation of railroads and large
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