Title Antitrust and the formation of the postwar world / Wyatt Wells

Published New York : Columbia University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 276 pages) Series Columbia studies in contemporary American history series Columbia studies in contemporary American history. Contents The cartel idea -- The context of antitrust -- Reform versus mobilization -- Making the world safe for competition -- Among unbelievers : antitrust in Germany and Japan -- The New Order in practice : the cases of oil and steel Summary This book shows how the United States sought to impose--and with what results--its antitrust policy on other nations, especially in Europe and Japan. Wyatt Wells chronicles how the attack on cartels and monopoly abroad affected everything from energy policy and trade negotiations to the occupation of Germany and Japan. He shows how a small group of zealots led by Thurman Arnold, who became head of the Justice Departmentþs Antitrust Division in 1938, targeted cartels and large companies throughout the world: IG Farben of Germany, Mitsui and Mitsubishi of Japan, Imperial Chemical Industries of Britain, Philips of the Netherlands, DuPont and General Electric of the United States, and more. Wells shows how subsequently, the architects of the postwar economy--notably Lucius Clay, John McCloy, William Clayton, Jean Monnet, and Ludwig Erhard--uncoupled political ideology from antitrust policy, transforming Arnold's effort into a means to promote business efficiency and encourage competition Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Antitrust law -- United States -- History Conflict of laws -- Antitrust law -- History Competition, Unfair -- History Cartels -- History LAW -- Taxation. LAW -- Antitrust. Antitrust law Cartels Competition, Unfair Conflict of laws -- Antitrust law United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0231502737 9780231502733

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