Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, this text takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present. It examines how policies respond to and affect the organization of space, and it looks to the future of American cities.

James W. Brock, Kenneth G. Elzinga

I: Fundamentals; 1: Corporate Giantism, Ethics, and the Public Interest; 2: Economists and Power; II: Selected Industry Studies; 3: Big Steel, Invention, and Innovation; 4: Vertical Divestiture of the Petroleum Majors: An Affirmative Case; 5: The Role of Competition in the Regulated Industries; 6: The Reality of Administered Prices; 7: The Military-Industrial Complex: A Market Structure Analysis; III: Selected Policy Studies; 8: Looking Backward: Some Medieval Precedents; 9: Is Bigness a Crime?; 10: The Case for Structural Tests; 11: Dissolution, Divorcement, Divestiture: The Pyrrhic Victories of Antitrust; 12: Business Exemptions from the Antitrust Laws: Their Extent and Rationale; 13: Import Restraints and Industrial Performance: The Dilemma of Protectionism; 14: Competition, Monopoly, and Countervailing Power; IV: A Public Philosophy; 15: Interview: Economic Power and the Constitution; 16: Creative Capitalism