Butler Shaffer LIVE! In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition
Channel: Liberty.me
Date: 2015-10-08

In Butler Shaffer’s meticulously-documented In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition 1918-1938, he paints a picture of Big Business and its desperate fight to be… regulated?

That’s right — Shaffer’s work (reminiscent of Gabriel Kolko and John T. Flynn) shows how Big Business lobbied to impose regulations on their industries in order to stamp out competition and raise barriers to entry. From steel to textiles, Shaffer names names and exposes corruption in a sweeping assault on crony corporatism. In this talk, Shaffer will discuss this period of regulatory history and what has (or hasn’t) changed since then.