Brian Highsmith
Graduate Student, American Politics
This forthcoming law journal article explores how the development of American antitrust law was shaped by popular concerns about the consequences of unregulated inter-jurisdictional competition for mobile corporate capital—focusing on (1) the lavish local subsidies demanded by private railroad companies during the late 19th century, and (2) tax competition among states for the legal location of the major trusts during the “chartermongering” episode in the early 20th century.