"This is a well-documented book, and Freyer has done impressive primary research....Freyer's contribution here is to focus on antitrust itself...to evaluate all the major cases, doctrines, legislative acts, and administrative approaches of the two countries, and then to compare them systematically with each other. This is a daunting task, here done acceptably well...." Thomas K. McGraw, Journal of American History

• Introduction; 1. The response to big business: the formative era, 1880–1914; 2. The divergence of economic thought; 3. The political response; 4. The courts respond to big business; 5. The impact of World War I, 1914–1921; 6. Tentative convergence, 1921–1948; 7. A British antimonopoly policy emerges, 1940–1948; 8. Uneven convergence since World War II; Conclusion.

"This is a well-documented book, and Freyer has done impressive primary research....Freyer's contribution here is to focus on antitrust itself...to evaluate all the major cases, doctrines, legislative acts, and administrative approaches of the two countries, and then to compare them systematically with each other. This is a daunting task, here done acceptably well...." Thomas K. McGraw, Journal of American History

• Introduction; 1. The response to big business: the formative era, 1880–1914; 2. The divergence of economic thought; 3. The political response; 4. The courts respond to big business; 5. The impact of World War I, 1914–1921; 6. Tentative convergence, 1921–1948; 7. A British antimonopoly policy emerges, 1940–1948; 8. Uneven convergence since World War II; Conclusion.