The regulatory revolution at the FTC : a thirty-year perspective on competition and consumer protection / James Campbell Cooper.
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- 9780199346325 (ebook) :
- 381.340973 23
- KF1611 .R44 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission had embarked on an activist consumer protection and antitrust agenda which resulted in severe public and congressional backlash, including calls to abolish the agency. Beginning in 1981, under the direction of Chairman James Miller, the FTC started down a new path of economically-oriented policymaking. This new approach helped save the FTC and laid the groundwork for it to grow into the world-class consumer protection and antitrust agency that it is today. This book examines this period of transition in light of continuing debate about the FTC's mission.
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