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ORGANIZER;CN="Megan Savage":MAILTO:msavag@law.columbia.edu
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SUMMARY:Law and Economics Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Law and Economic Studies' Guest speaker for today's Law and Economics Workshop will be George L. Priest, Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law and Economics, Yale Law School, presentation "TBD" All are welcome\nAbstract\: The success of the Standard Oil monopoly is not well understood. Standard Oil first developed a monopoly over the refining of crude oil, though later extended its control to gathering pipelines, later still to trunk pipelines (from the western Oil Regions to East Coast ports) and, even later, expanded operations to include oil production (drilling) and retail sales at the time the Supreme Court ordered its dissolution over 100 years ago, in 1911. \nThough there are several journalistic exposés of Standard Oil—including Henry Demarest Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, as well as business histories—none are fully explanatory. The currently dominant theory of Standard Oil's success is by Elizabeth Granitz and Benjamin Klein who assert that Standard Oil was chosen by oil shippers, the railroads, to police a railroad cartel. According to Granitz and Klein, the railroads split with Standard Oil the profits from cartelization of the crude and refined oil industry. \nThis Article challenges that explanation, claiming that there were attempts made to cartelize at all levels of the oil industry—producers, gathering pipelines, refiners, and railroads. There are good economic reasons that explain why Standard Oil, a refiner at the remote western location of Cleveland, acquired most of the pipelines and secured a monopoly against the producers and the railroads.
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