The Tom Woods Show, episode 1121.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. Talking about the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 here in this episode,

and I've got probably at least one or two episodes on antitrust

law in general and the economic arguments with respect to them. And I will make sure and link to

that episode or those episodes on the show notes page, which today is tomwoods.com slash 1121.

But for now, what we want to talk about is something a little bit different,

about the motivations behind the act. And it turns out that the motivations behind it were in part

rather more mundane than elevated, put it that way. And joining me to talk about this is the author

of a brand new paper on precisely this topic,

which of course we'll also link to at tomwoods.com slash 1121. And that is Patrick Newman,

who is a professor of economics at Florida Southern College. He's been on the show before. He was

in attendance at the thousandth episode event, which puts him way, way up on my list of awesome people.

And I'm very glad to welcome him to the show right now.

Patrick, welcome back.

Thanks for having me on, Tom.

Love your paper.

We're linking to it at tomwoods.com slash 1120.

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