"Associationalism" involved the establishment of trade associations – by 1929 more than 2,000 of the represented virtually every significant industry and commodity. These associations shared information and promoted trade practice controls. It was hoped to encourage stability in the economy and increase profits and could have been challenged under existing anti-trust laws, Republican administrations followed a policy of lax enforcement of those laws. Who is most associated establishing associationalism? Question 11 options: a) Calvin Coolidge b) Warren Harding c) herbert Hoover d) Andrew Mellon