Brett Christophers is Associate Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University.
As a work of political economy, The Great Leveler makes a
provocative and compelling case for the law as an essential
historical actor. This highly readable book challenges historians
of business, economics, and capitalism to consider the pivotal role
of competition law and expand their conceptions of what capitalism
is and how it has been reproduced over time.
*Enterprise & Society*
[A] compelling combination of analysis and historical detail…The
Great Leveler is an important contribution to understanding some of
the most acute modern policy—and political—questions.
*The Enlightened Economist*
The Great Leveler is a brilliant rethinking of a century and a half
of U.S. and English economic history. It is a must read for all
scholars of political economy. Focusing on the dialectic between
monopoly and competition, Christophers uncovers four alternating
periods that are characterized either by too much or too little
competition. He sees the period from 1975 to the present as one of
runaway monopolization, and questions whether national legal
systems still have the power and authority to play a critical
balancing role.
*Fred Block, University of California, Davis*
The book does a masterful job of weaving a rich skein of a complex
whole (capitalism and its movement through time and space) into an
accessible and convincing narrative.
*Susan K. Sell, George Washington University*
[An] insightful historical work on the economic functions of
law…This is a tremendous and important scholarly work. The choice
of three periods and two complementary kinds of competition (or
monopoly) law is inspired and provides seriously insightful
analysis of the contrasting dynamics of competition and monopoly at
the level of the corporate form, market price formation, and abuse
of market power.
*Antipode*
Thoroughly researched and engagingly written…This is a rich and
significant monograph, which any economic geographer, and many
others beside, should read.
*Economic Geography*
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