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Auctions as a Threat to American Business in the Eighteen Twenties and Thirties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Lewis E. Atherton
Lewis E. Atherton
Affiliation:
University of Missouri
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Extract

In the history of business one finds a universal inclination to oppose new techniques which threaten to undermine established enterprise. Today this tendency is seen in the United States in the fight against chain stores and mail-order houses; a hundred years ago the new auction system of wholesaling was under fire.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 11 , Issue 6 , December 1937 , pp. 104 - 107
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1937

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