Book Reviews

• Author: Corwin D. Edwards
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X7502000210
• Published date: 01 June 1975
• Date: 01 June 1975
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

BOOK

REVIEWS

435

Peter

John, Die Kontrolle

von

Marktmacht in Groszbritan-

nien, Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, &Munich: Carl Heymanns

Verlag

(1974),288 pp., 48 German marks.

This book contains acomprehensive

history

and analysis

of the policy of the United Kingdom

toward

those concentra-

tions of economic power

that

the law of

that

country defines

as monopolies and toward those

mergers

that

fall

under

that

law by virtue of

their

market

share or

their

size.

It

traces the

development of these aspects of

British

policy in successive

statutes

from 1948

through

1973; analyzes the content of

par-

ticular applications of policy by the Monopolies Commission

under

the

standards

developed before 1973; and briefly ap-

praises

the 1973 law's modifications of previous policy.

In

discussing applications of policy it is concerned explicitly

with each of the chief types of economic impact

that

were

evaluated by the Monopolies Commission

and

with the stand-

ards

as to the public

interest

that

were evolved in these

evaluations.

To this reviewer (who has repeatedly

tried

to

understand

and

appraise

the legal concepts and public policy

standards

of countries other

than

his own) Dr.

John's

achievement

in

comprehending and explaining the policy of the United King-

dom is impressive.

His

book deserves aplace among the

best

of such summaries, including those of

British

origin.

CORWIN

D.

EDWARDS

Professor

Emeritus

University of Oregon