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The Politics of Purity - Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Purity - Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy (Hardcover)
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Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act
of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the
United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public
interest for bringing about a law that required healthful
ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton Coppin and Jack High
demonstrate, however, that Wiley was in fact surreptitiously allied
with business firms that would benefit from regulation and
moreover, that the law would help him build his government agency,
the Federal Bureau of Chemistry.
Coppin and High discuss such issues as Wiley's efforts to assign
the law's enforcement to his own bureau. They go on to expose the
selectivity of Wiley's enforcement of the law, in which he
manipulated commercial competition in order to reward firms that
supported him and penalize those that opposed him. By examining the
history of the law's movement, the authors show that, rather than
acting in the public interest, Wiley used the Pure Food and Drugs
Act to further his own power and success. Finally, they analyze
government regulation itself as the outcome of two distinct
competitive processes, one that takes place in the market, the
other in the polity.
The book will interest scholars concerned with government
regulation, including those in economics, political science,
history, and business.
Clayton Coppin is a management consultant and historian, Koch
Industries, Wichita. Jack High is Professor of Economics, George
Mason University.
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