Price Fixing by Governments 424 B.C. - 1926 A.D. -- A Selected Bibliography, Including Some References on the Principles of Price Fixing, and on Price Fixing by Private Organizations

Excerpts from the Introduction: This bibliography brings down to date compilations made in 1922 which were summarized in a paper by the undersigned entitled "Food Control During Forty-six Centuries: A Contribution to the History of Price Fixing" read before the Agricultural History Society on March 10, 1922. This paper was mimeographed by this Bureau and later printed in the Scientific Monthly, v. 16, no. 6, June 1923. In addition to the references in these earlier compilations, which dealt only with food and were limited to outstanding examples of price fixing prior to 1800, the present bibliography has been enlarged to include references on other agricultural products. Non-agricultural commodities are included when they are mentioned in connection with agricultural products or in general discussions of the subject. An effort has been made to confine the bibliography to cases of specific price fixing. When governments establish monopolies they usually reserve to themselves, for purposes of revenue, the exclusive privilege of the sale and manufacture of the commodity in question. As this practice implies price fixing, references on monopolies have been included.