A History of Business Cartels: International Politics, National Policies and Anti-Competitive Behaviour

International cartels are powerful organizations that impact our everyday lives, although they are little known. This book presents fifteen historical case studies of international cartels which reveal that international cartels manipulated prices and shared markets over many decades, but that their real impact was far wider.

Martin Shanahan is a professor of Economic and Business History at the University of South Australia and Elof Hansson Visiting Professor in International Business and Trade at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Susanna Fellman is a professor of Business History, and the Torsten Söderberg and Ragnar Söderberg Chair in Business History at the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.