Book Review: Butler Shaffer, In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918-1938

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07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Robert P. Murphy

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In this article, Professor Robert P. Murphey offers a review of Butler Shaffer’s In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition.

Volume 15, Number 4 (2001)

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Murphy, Robert P. “Book Review: Butler Shaffer, In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition.” Journal of Libertarian Studies 15, No. 4 (2001): 113–116.

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