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Titre Comprendre le Sherman antitrust Act de 1890 (Les origines de la politique concurrentielle fédérale américaine)
Auteur Hubert Kempf
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers d'économie politique
Numéro no 20-21, printemps-automne 1992 Formes et sciences du marché
Rubrique / Thématique
Nouveaux savoirs sur les marchés
Page 187-211
Résumé anglais The notoriety of the Sherman Act, enacted in 1890, is still remarkable. However, it lacks a clear understanding and the US antitrust policy in the twentieth century is quite contradictory. Such a posterity of the law becomes understandable when it is recognized that the aim of the law was not strictly economical (« protecting competition ») but political. What was at bay was the balance of power between the states and the federal government. Viewed as such, the Sherman Act appears as a milestone event in the centralizing process at work in the US.
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