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Failed Cooperation in Heterogeneous Industries Under the National Recovery Administration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Barbara J. Alexander
Barbara J. Alexander
Affiliation:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, 02181.
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Abstract

A case study, a formal model, and an anaLysis of Census of Manufactures data support a conclusion that cost heterogeneity was a major source of the “compliance crisis” affecting a number of National Recovery Administration “codes of fair competition.” Key elements of the argument are assumptions that progressives at the NRA allowed majority coalitions of small, high-cost finns to impose codes in heterogeneous industries, and that these codes were designed by the high-cost firms under an ultimately erroneous belief that they would be enforced by the NRA.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 322 - 344
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1997

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