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Cartels — Wendell Berge

Cartels

Wendell Berge

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 230 pages

Cartels by Wendell Berge is a collection of essays from 1946 by the then Assistant Attorney General of the United States. It examines cartel control of major world industries as an obstacle to a free economy and democratic institutions, especially amid postwar reconstruction. It is worth listening to for its clear, urgent discussion of economic power and public life.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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CARTELS

Challenge to a Free World

By WENDELL BERGE

Assistant Attorney General of the United States

Public Affairs Press

WASHINGTON, D. C.

To My Father

GEORGE W. BERGE

who throughout his life and in his public career was guided by the conviction that the people’s rights are not won without struggle and will not be maintained without vigilance.

Public Affairs Press, 2153 Florida Ave., Washington, D. C.

Copyright, 1946, by American Council on Public Affairs

M. B. Schnapper, Executive Secretary and Editor

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Contents

  1. CARTELS: Challenge to a Free World
  2. Preface
  3. CONTENTS
  4. 1 Trusts to Cartels
  5. 2 Enterprise Eclipsed
  6. 3 Technology
  7. 4 Patents
  8. 5 Medicines
  9. 6 Synthetic Hormones
  10. 7 Vitamins
  11. 8 Quebracho Extract
  12. 9 Titanium
  13. 10 Optical Instruments
  14. 11 Miscellaneous Products
  15. 12 The Webb Act
  16. 13 Private Governments
  17. 14 Freedom or Control?
  18. APPENDIX I Recent Cases
  19. APPENDIX II Bibliography
  20. Index
  21. Transcriber’s Note
  22. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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