What Has Been Happening to Aggregate Concentration in the United States?

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/2098300
Authors: 
Lawrence J. White

 CONCERN about bigness and about aggregate concentration-the percentage of some national economic measure controlled by the leading companies in the nation-has been a recurring theme in the United States. In the late I970S the US economy appeared to be going through another merger wave of large companies. Political concern over bigness and aggregate concentration was rising, and legislation was introduced to limit large conglomerate mergers

Pages: 
223-230
Date: 
03/01/1981

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