My guest in this episode is Dr. Naomi Lamoreaux. She explains how antitrust enforcement has changed since its lax era of the 1980s. She adds that it's not just antitrust, patent law, which is seemingly a highly technical field of law, is also a product of our political system. 

Dr. Lamoreaux takes us back to John D. Rockefeller, to the days of Standard Oil, to how the term antitrust was adopted and how the scope and enforcement of antitrust has ebbed and flowed over the centuries. This history is replete With colorful characters such as Judge Learned Hand and later Judge Bork, and iconic companies such as General Electric, International Harvester, and United States Steel Corporation, and organizations such as labor unions, NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan. 

Dr. Lamoreaux is a professor of Economics and History at Yale University's Department of Economics. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School

To learn more about Lamoreaux, you can visit her academic homepage.

In addition, below are links to two fascinating episodes: 

S2E40: OPEC, Prices At the Pump & Oil History, Dr. Weaver

S2E13: CRISPR Patents, Dr. Zyontz

S1E17: History of US Patents, Mr. Pepe & Dr. Brenner 

I hope you enjoy these episodes.

Adel

Host of the History Behind News podcast

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