Regulating competition : : cartel registers in the twentieth-century world / / edited by Susanna Fellman and Martin Shanahan.

• Superior document: Routledge Explorations in Economic History ; 75
• TeilnehmendeR: Fellman, Susanna.; Shanahan, Martin
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge explorations in economic history ; 75.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Cartels, trusts and agreements to reduce competition between firms have existed for centuries, but became particularly prevalent toward the end of the 19th century. In the mid-20th century governments began to use so called ‘cartel registers’ to monitor and regulate their behaviour. This book provid...

Table of Contents

• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: regulating capitalism - the rise and fall of 'cartel registers' in the twentieth-century world; PART I Context of cartel registers; 2 Publish or be damned? Early cartel legislation in USA, Germany and Norway, 1890-1940; 3 Legitimising Cartels: the joint roles of the League of Nations and of the International Chamber of Commerce; 4 Competition policy in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992: the curse of compulsory registration?
• 5 How the tortoise became a hare: on the initial sclerosis and ultimate modernisation of Dutch competition policy6 Creating the 1957 cartel law: the role of pressure groups on Finland's competition policy and cartel registration; PART II Registers in different countries; 7 Cartel registers around the world; 8 Transparency of cartels and cartel registers: a regulatory innovation from Norway?; 9 The secret register and its impact in advancing competition in Australia, 1900-2010; 10 Policy transfer and its limits: authorised cartels in twentieth-century Japan
• 11 Cartel law and the cartel register in German twentieth-century history12 Cartel registration in Sweden in the post-war period; 13 The Dutch cartel collection in the twentieth century: facts and figures; 14 Regulating competition of the Swedish insurance business: the role of the insurance cartel registry; PART III Conclusion; 15 Conclusion; References; Index