[1][2] Early 1943, he published together with Charles Welsh a populist pamphlet against German and international cartels: Germanys Master Plan : The Story of Industrial Offensive.
[3] By their book, Borkin and his co-author Charles Welsh provided – even before the works of Corwin D. Edwards and Wendell Berge of 1944 – the first major American pamphlet against international cartels.
[4][5] The 'grey eminence' behind the campaign seems to have been Thurman Arnold, who had been driven out of his post as head of the Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Until 1946, he was chief economist in the Antitrust agency and worked on the German IG Farben concern and its international cartel connections.
[1][2] He also published about literary works, on Sigmund Freud and on the Indonese language, as well as a book about the effectiveness of antitrust prosecutions and one about the role of the lawyer in the Watergate scandal remained uncompleted.