{"id":5182,"date":"2004-12-10T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/12\/10\/foer-reviews-five\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:09","slug":"foer-reviews-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/12\/10\/foer-reviews-five\/","title":{"rendered":"foer reviews five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2894'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><DIV><A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/whoaai.cfm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Bert Foer<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">, President of the <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/whoaai.cfm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">American Antitrust Institute<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">, makes your holiday gift shopping easier &#8212; and <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">may improve <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">your understanding of policy issues involving markets, competition, and corporate structure<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;&#8212; with a <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.antitrustinstitute.org\/recent2\/357.cfm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">holiday book review<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">posted today that covers&nbsp;the following books:<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0679642498\/qid=1102694652\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1569557-1267912?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge <\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0300093349\/qid=1102694936\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1569557-1267912?v=glance&amp;s=books\">The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;Charles E. Lindblom <\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0226675769\/qid=1102694985\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1569557-1267912?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Antitrust Law<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> (second edition) Richard A. Posner <\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/069108677X\/qid=1102695033\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1569557-1267912?v=glance&amp;s=books\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Global Political Economy Understanding the International Economic Order<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> Robert Gilpin <\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"black\" size=\"2\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/069108677X\/qid=1102695033\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-1569557-1267912?v=glance&amp;s=books\">The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy<\/A><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> (second edition) <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Walter Adams and James W. Brock Stanford<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<P><\/P><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Foer&nbsp;sets up the review with this introduction:<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">&#8220;Markets and governments have been with us throughout history, but our notions of how these two <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">featured instruments of civilization should interact are constantly changing. Five recent books throw<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">light on current thinking about the nature of firms and markets and the appropriate role for government,<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">particularly with respect to government&#x2019;s paradoxical antitrust role as the middle way protector of <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">competition, the principal alternative to a heavy-handed regime of economic regulation or its opposite, <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">laissez faire capitalism. The microeconomic paradigm known as the Chicago School (or what Joseph <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Stiglitz in the international context calls &#x201C;the Washington Consensus&#x201D;) has controlled federal antitrust <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">policy since the election of Ronald Reagan. The paradigm is flawed, but its successor has not yet <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">congealed.&#8221; <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Arial\"><\/FONT><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT size=\"2\"><FONT face=\"Arial\">at the market<BR>with all his might<BR>firefly flits<\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT size=\"2\"><\/DIV><\/FONT><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/issa\/searchissa.php?sorter=date&amp;s_string=market+firefly+flits&amp;season=&amp;s_date=\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"1\">ISSA<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">, translated by D. Lanoue&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/watchstepsign.gif\" alt=\"watch step sign\" \/>&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert Foer, President of the American Antitrust Institute, makes your holiday gift shopping easier &#8212; and may improve your understanding of policy issues involving markets, competition, and corporate structure &nbsp;&#8212; with a holiday book review posted today that covers&nbsp;the following books: The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1lA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13469,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions\/13469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}