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Strange brew : alcohol and government monopoly / Douglas Glen Whitman.
- Title
- Strange brew : alcohol and government monopoly / Douglas Glen Whitman.
- Author
- Whitman, Douglas Glen.
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- Additional Authors
- Whitman, Douglas Glen.
- Description
- 50 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "After Prohibition ended in 1933, many states passed laws regulating the sale of alcoholic beverages. Ostensibly intended to protect wholesalers from the market power of large suppliers and the public from the harmful effects of alcohol, these laws in fact created government-protected monopolies." "In Strange Brew, one of the first studies of this topic, economist Douglas Glen Whitman subjects these regulations, now known as Franchise Termination Laws, to critical scrutiny." "Strange Brew demonstrates that the laws regulating the alcoholic beverage industry, more aptly called "monopoly protection laws," reflect powerful special interests in the political process who use such measures to restrict markets, shield themselves from competition and consumer preferences, and set higher prices with relative impunity. It also shows how the notion that alcohol consumption is a "sin" in need of legal restraint substitutes the choices and moral judgment of politicians for that of consumers."--BOOK JACKET.
- Alternative Title
- Alcohol and government monopoly
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0945999887
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries