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Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12, no. 3 (July 2013): 285–319.
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched... View Details
- Web
Impact Stories - Business History
Impact Stories Angle of Insight Re: Efosa Ojomo (MBA 2015) Discovery Process Re: Caitlin Rosenthal Fair Competition Re: Laura Phillips Sawyer Levels of Meaning Re: Ben... View Details
Fair Competition
competition policy, law and economics, and federalism. I recently published a paper in the Business History Review, titled “California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy.” [This article was awarded the Glenn Sonnedecker... View Details
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: U.S. Law and Economics in the 1920s By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2018
- Technical Note
Context, Contingency, Agency
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Context, Contingency, Agency." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-026, December 2018.
- April 2019
- Background Note
A Note on U.S. Bankruptcy Law: Individuals, Firms, and Sub-State Entities
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "A Note on U.S. Bankruptcy Law: Individuals, Firms, and Sub-State Entities." Harvard Business School Background Note 719-022, April 2019.
- November 2017
- Supplement
Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era (B)
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-010, November 2017.
- Apr 2014
- Lecture
Gilded Age Political Economy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Gilded Age Political Economy." Brown University, April 2014.
- 2018
- Chapter
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S.
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an incoherent attack on the neoclassical economic paradigm. This essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Economics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S." In New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 349–374. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- Jun 2014
- Conference Presentation
Managing American Competition: Trade Associations and the Growth of the Administrative State, 1911–1932
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Managing American Competition: Trade Associations and the Growth of the Administrative State, 1911–1932." Paper presented at the Policy History Conference, Institute for Political History, Columbus, OH, June 2014.
- 18 May 2018
- Conference Presentation
Roundtable, "Author Meets Reader" review of American Fair Trade. Comments on the book from Professors Benjamin Waterhouse, Joanna Grisinger, Victoria Saker Woeste, and Elizabeth Sanders.
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. Roundtable, "Author Meets Reader" review of American Fair Trade. Comments on the book from Professors Benjamin Waterhouse, Joanna Grisinger, Victoria Saker Woeste, and Elizabeth Sanders. Paper presented at the Policy History Conference, Institute for Political History, Tempe, AZ, May 18, 2018.
- March 2018 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Vietnam: Managing Global Value Chains
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Vietnam: Managing Global Value Chains." Harvard Business School Case 718-055, March 2018. (Revised November 2018.)
- Article
California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy." Business History Review 90, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 31–56.
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2017 (Revised April 2019)
- Teaching Note
Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 717-004 and 718-010. View Details
- 4 Jun 2017
- Conference Presentation
Democratic Protest in an Age of Market Consolidation: A Case Study on the Chicago Gas Trust and the Illinois Antitrust Act of 1891
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
- August 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era." Harvard Business School Case 717-004, August 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 15 Oct 2015 - 18 Oct 2015
- Conference Presentation
Institutional Economics and Managed Competition: U.S. Antitrust, Economics and Law in the Progressive Era, 1911-1929
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
- Mar 2013
- Panel Discussion
Understanding the Dynamics of Political-Economic Change in the 1930s and 1940s
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Understanding the Dynamics of Political-Economic Change in the 1930s and 1940s." Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, March 2013.