2020 Reviews

Brandeis, Hoover, and the Problem of Fair Trade in Interwar America

John, Richard R.

Review of: Laura Phillips Sawyer, American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890-1940 (2017).

"American Fair Trade" is an impressive contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history of the American political economy, a literature energized since the 2008 financial crisis by the emergence of a new subfield known as the “history of capitalism.”