Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author:
Robert Higgs
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Volume 3, No. 4 (Winter 2000) Butler Shaffer’s well-written monograph, In Restraint of Trade , describes in extensive detail why and how most businessmen pleaded for the government to tame them between the end of World War I and the eve of World War II. Other scholars have plowed this field before; most notably John T. Flynn (to whose memory