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- 2015
- Working Paper
The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness,' 1890-1938
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from trade associations of independent proprietors. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness,' 1890-1938." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-060, November 2015.
- 24 Jun 2015 - 27 Jun 2015
- Conference Presentation
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and State-Building: Trade Associations, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State, 1912-1925
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and State-Building: Trade Associations, Antitrust Reform, and the Administrative State, 1912-1925." Paper presented at the Business History Conference Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, June 24–27, 2015.
- Nov 2013
- Conference Presentation
The Political Uses of Economics Ideas: Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition, 1920-1940
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The Political Uses of Economics Ideas: Institutionalist Economics and Managed Competition, 1920-1940." Paper presented at the New Perspectives in the History of Political Economy, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, November 2013.
- Nov 2013
- Conference Presentation
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Creation of the Modern Administrative State: Codes of Fair Competition, Institutional Economics, and the State, 1912-1938
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Creation of the Modern Administrative State: Codes of Fair Competition, Institutional Economics, and the State, 1912-1938." Paper presented at the Business and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DE, November 2013.
- 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.
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
market regulation. New Deal partnerships in planning borrowed from those efforts to manage competitive markets, yet ultimately discredited the fair trade model by mandating economy-wide trade rules that sharply reduced competition. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness', 1890–1938 By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51195 Spring 2016 Business History Review California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Other Article
Introduction
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer and Herbert Hovenkamp
Phillips Sawyer, Laura, and Herbert Hovenkamp. "Introduction." Business History Review 93, no. 4 (Winter 2019): 657. (Special Issue on New Perspectives in Regulatory History, edited by Laura Phillips Sawyer and Herbert Hovenkamp.)
- Jun 2018
- Conference Presentation
Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: N. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
- 5 Oct 2018
- Other Presentation
Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
- November 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Rebuilding Puerto Rico
By: Laura Alfaro, Laura Phillips Sawyer and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria swept over Puerto Rico, devastating the island’s infrastructure and agriculture. The natural disaster was layered atop years of mounting financial distress. Before the hurricane, Puerto Rico had accumulated $74 billion in debt and... View Details
Keywords: Natural Disasters; Financial Crisis; Infrastructure; Borrowing and Debt; Economy; Strategic Planning; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Puerto Rico
Alfaro, Laura, Laura Phillips Sawyer, and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "Rebuilding Puerto Rico." Harvard Business School Case 719-018, November 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- Mar 2018
- Conference Presentation
Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy
By: Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Laura Phillips Sawyer
- 24 Feb 2017
- Conference Presentation
Private Power, Public Values: Regulating 'Social Infrastructure' in a Changing Economy
By: K. Sabeel Rahman and Laura Phillips Sawyer (comment)
Rahman, K. Sabeel, and Laura Phillips Sawyer (comment). "Private Power, Public Values: Regulating 'Social Infrastructure' in a Changing Economy." Paper presented at the Law & Government Research Roundtable: Revisiting the Public Utility, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN, February 24, 2017.
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
granted by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Anna Holmes Anna Holmes has written and edited for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New Yorker online. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
interstate competition. Among the works discussed here is Hont’s 2005 book, Jealousy of Trade, which explores the birth of economic nationalism and other social effects of expanding 18th-century markets. American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the... View Details