Scenarios about 'antitrust law'
Antitrust law encompasses legal frameworks designed to prevent monopolies, promote market competition, and protect consumers from anti-competitive business practices. These regulations emerged primarily during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in response to the concentrated economic power of industrial trusts and cartels. In alternate history scenarios, different approaches to antitrust enforcement can dramatically alter technological development, corporate structures, and the balance between state and private economic power.
What If Standard Oil Was Never Broken Up?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the 1911 Supreme Court decision failed to dissolve Standard Oil, reshaping global economic development, competition law, and the entire trajectory of 20th-century capitalism.