The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.
Since it first appeared in 1978, this seminal work by one of the foremost American legal minds of our age has dramatically changed the way the courts view government's role in private affairs.
At bottom, antitrust is a defensible enterprise only if it can make the microeconomy work better, after accounting for the considerable costs of operating the system.
The Justice Department's lawsuit was brought during the Clinton administration and settled shortly after the D.C. Circuit's 2001 decision with conduct relief, not divestitures, during the first year of the George W. Bush administration.
Antitrust law regulates economic activity but differs in its operation from what is traditionally considered "regulation." Where regulation is often industry-specific and involves the direct setting of prices, product characteristics,...
Economist Jan Eeckhout shows how this is due to a small number of companies exploiting an unbridled rise in market power—the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace.
This innovative and original book explores the relationship between blockchain and antitrust, highlighting the mutual benefits that stem from cooperation between the two and providing a unique perspective on how law and technology could ...
Labor monopsony in the United States -- The failure of antitrust -- Collusion -- Monopsony -- Mergers -- Noncompetes -- The limits of antitrust -- Employment and labor law : old and new directions -- The gig economy and independent ...
55 The Sherman Act was mainly drafted by Senator George Edmunds of Vermont with help from Senators James George of Mississippi and George Hoar of Massachusetts . The original bill of Senator John Sherman of Ohio had been made unwieldy ...
From the man who coined the term net neutrality and who has made significant contributions to our understanding of antitrust policy and wireless communications, comes a call for tighter antitrust enforcement and an end to corporate bigness.
In addition to the aforementioned coauthored books with Walter Adams, he has writtten Antitrust, the Market and the State: The Contributions of Walter Adams. DONALD DEWEY Donald Dewey has been a member of the Economics faculty at ...