"Until recently there have been almost no analyses of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as a political institution—that is, one driven both by internal incentives and by ties to a larger political body that, in turn, responds to its own political and economic pressures. Past research has usually viewed the FTC's mandate of antitrust and consumer protection as beyond controversy and has treated the agency as a well-intentioned guar ..."
Publication Public Choice and Regulation : A View from Inside the Federal Trade Commission No. 356 by Robert J. Mackay , Bruce Yandle , Editor-Etc Hardcover, Published 1987 by Hoover Institution Press,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-8179-8561-5, ISBN: 0-8179-8561-1