Helen Mercer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1115207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Mercer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mercer |
| SIGNATURE | MERCER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | b Public Record Office |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-6213-1362 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The making of the modern retail market
This article makes a critical examination of the economic case made for the prohibition of individual resale price maintenance (IRPM) in 1964. The Resale Prices Act had major implications for the future structure of British retailing and was lobbied for by multiple grocery retailers. This article demonstrates how a government enquiry which preceded the legislation privileged one side of the debate and marginalised other – arguably more rigorous –…
Retailer–Supplier Relationships before and after the Resale Prices Act, 1964
This article provides an analysis of the impact of the abolition of individual resale price maintenance (irpm) in 1964 on the relationships between retailers and suppliers and, wider, on defining features of the UK economic structure. It describes the role of irpm prior to 1964 in a complex competitive environment that existed across a range of goods and services. A key feature of this environment was the influence manufacturers had over retail m…
Constructing a Competitive Order
Reluctant Europeans? The Federation of British Industries and European Integration, 1945–63
British industry is often portrayed as one of the main forces in favour of closer integration with western Europe. In the period prior to the rejection of Britain's first application to join the Common Market the Federation of British Industries (FBI) played a pivotal role between Whitehall and the wider business community. It had a role both in policy-making and in creating business opinion. However, this was not a static and sustained position:…
Constructing a Competitive Order
Journal Article Constructing a Competitive Order: The Hidden History of British Antitrust Policies. Get access Constructing a Competitive Order: The Hidden History of British Antitrust Policies. By Merger(Helen). (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 274. £35.00 hardback, US $59.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 41292 7.) Peter Maunder Peter Maunder Loughborough University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Constructing a Competitive Order
Labour Governments and Private Industry
Part 1 policies: The Reichstag method of governing? - Atlee governments and permanent economic controls, Neil Rollings productivity policy, Jim Tomlinson anti-monopoly policy, Helen Mercer private industrial movements, Martin Chick whatever happened to the British warfare state? - the Ministry of Supply 1945-1951, David Edgerton taxation policy, Richard Whiting. Part 2 the sectors: the cotton industry - a middle way between nationalism and self-g…
Governments, Industries and Markets
Retailer–Supplier Relationships before and after the Resale Prices Act, 1964
This article provides an analysis of the impact of the abolition of individual resale price maintenance (irpm) in 1964 on the relationships between retailers and suppliers and, wider, on defining features of the UK economic structure. It describes the role of irpm prior to 1964 in a complex competitive environment that existed across a range of goods and services. A key feature of this environment was the influence manufacturers had over retail m…
Reluctant Europeans? The Federation of British Industries and European Integration, 1945–63
British industry is often portrayed as one of the main forces in favour of closer integration with western Europe. In the period prior to the rejection of Britain's first application to join the Common Market the Federation of British Industries (FBI) played a pivotal role between Whitehall and the wider business community. It had a role both in policy-making and in creating business opinion. However, this was not a static and sustained position:…
The making of the modern retail market
This article makes a critical examination of the economic case made for the prohibition of individual resale price maintenance (IRPM) in 1964. The Resale Prices Act had major implications for the future structure of British retailing and was lobbied for by multiple grocery retailers. This article demonstrates how a government enquiry which preceded the legislation privileged one side of the debate and marginalised other – arguably more rigorous –…
Governments, Industries and Markets
Labour Governments and Private Industry
Part 1 policies: The Reichstag method of governing? - Atlee governments and permanent economic controls, Neil Rollings productivity policy, Jim Tomlinson anti-monopoly policy, Helen Mercer private industrial movements, Martin Chick whatever happened to the British warfare state? - the Ministry of Supply 1945-1951, David Edgerton taxation policy, Richard Whiting. Part 2 the sectors: the cotton industry - a middle way between nationalism and self-g…
Constructing a Competitive Order
Journal Article Constructing a Competitive Order: The Hidden History of British Antitrust Policies. Get access Constructing a Competitive Order: The Hidden History of British Antitrust Policies. By Merger(Helen). (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. xi + 274. £35.00 hardback, US $59.95 hardback. ISBN 0 521 41292 7.) Peter Maunder Peter Maunder Loughborough University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Constructing a Competitive Order
Reluctant Europeans? The Federation of British Industries and European Integration, 1945–63
British industry is often portrayed as one of the main forces in favour of closer integration with western Europe. In the period prior to the rejection of Britain's first application to join the Common Market the Federation of British Industries (FBI) played a pivotal role between Whitehall and the wider business community. It had a role both in policy-making and in creating business opinion. However, this was not a static and sustained position:…
Constructing a Competitive Order
Retailer–Supplier Relationships before and after the Resale Prices Act, 1964
This article provides an analysis of the impact of the abolition of individual resale price maintenance (irpm) in 1964 on the relationships between retailers and suppliers and, wider, on defining features of the UK economic structure. It describes the role of irpm prior to 1964 in a complex competitive environment that existed across a range of goods and services. A key feature of this environment was the influence manufacturers had over retail m…
The making of the modern retail market
This article makes a critical examination of the economic case made for the prohibition of individual resale price maintenance (IRPM) in 1964. The Resale Prices Act had major implications for the future structure of British retailing and was lobbied for by multiple grocery retailers. This article demonstrates how a government enquiry which preceded the legislation privileged one side of the debate and marginalised other – arguably more rigorous –…
Economics (8 works) · Business (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Market economy (4 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (3 works) · Economy (2 works) · European history and politics (2 works)