Price, William Hyde. English patents of monopoly. (Harvard economic studies, v. 1.) **$1.50. Houghton.
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In this volume “the application of the common law to cases of monopoly down to the enactment of the common-law principle in the statute of monopolies in 1624, is followed in detail.... Having treated of the political and economic aspects of the monopoly system as a whole, the author devotes succeeding chapters to several selected important industries wherein monopolies were established.... In appendices, occupying something over one hundred pages, original documents, statutes, letters, and proclamations concerning patents, monopolies, and commissions, and touching grievances, are reprinted.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“This somewhat perfunctory treatment of the larger question involved is our principal, in fact almost our only criticism of this serious study by a well-trained investigator of an interesting and important subject. We regret that a more restricted subject was not taken, or else that the first chapter, the ‘political history’ of the monopolies, was not made much longer and more serious, more discriminating and more scientifically historical. We have no doubt that the author is entirely capable of having so treated it, but was led astray by a predominatingly economic interest.”
| + − | Am. Hist. R. 12: 878. Jl. ’07. 710w. |
“To that literature [English economic history] the present monograph is a scholarly contribution.” John Cummings.
| + | J. Pol. Econ. 14: 575. N. ’06. 600w. |
“Mr. Price ... deals with the matter as a historian rather than as a legislator or statesman, but publicists cannot read his excellent contribution to the subject of monopolies without finding it highly suggestive.” Edward A. Bradford.
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 122. Mr. 2, ’07. 1650w. |