| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| Table of Cases | |
| |
| |
| Restraints of Trade at Common Law | |
| |
| |
| Contracts in Restraint of Trade | |
| |
| |
| Monopoly and Conspiracy | |
| |
| |
| The Antitrust Statutes | |
| |
| |
| The Demand for Regulation | |
| |
| |
| The Sherman Act | |
| |
| |
| The Clayton and Federal Trade Commission Acts | |
| |
| |
| Institutional Implications | |
| |
| |
| Antitrust Economics (in a Nutshell) | |
| |
| |
| Some Basic Explanations and Behavioral Assumptions | |
| |
| |
| Basic Economic Models | |
| |
| |
| Current Developments | |
| |
| |
| The Monopoly Problem | |
| |
| |
| Monopoly Power | |
| |
| |
| Monopolization: The Uses of Monopoly Power | |
| |
| |
| Attempts to Monopolize | |
| |
| |
| Horizontal Restraints: The Evolution of Standards | |
| |
| |
| The Economics of Cartels and Transaction Costs | |
| |
| |
| Horizontal Agreements and the Structure of Legal Rules: The Relationship Between Per Se Rules and Reasonableness Standards | |
| |
| |
| Price-Fixing | |
| |
| |
| Market Allocations and Production Controls | |
| |
| |
| Boycotts | |
| |
| |
| Horizontal Restraints: Problems of Proof and Characterization | |
| |
| |
| Evidence of an Agreement | |
| |
| |
| Problems of Characterization | |
| |
| |
| The Oligopoly Problem | |
| |
| |
| Economists and the Oligopoly Problem | |
| |
| |
| Legal Approaches to the Control of Oligopolies | |
| |
| |
| Vertical Restraints | |
| |
| |
| Transaction Cost Economics and Vertical Relationships | |
| |
| |
| Restrictions on Distribution | |
| |
| |
| Limits on Supplier Power: Exclusionary Practices | |
| |
| |
| Mergers | |
| |
| |
| Tensions in Modern Merger Analysis | |
| |
| |
| Competitive Effects Overview | |
| |
| |
| The Sherman Act and Mergers Tending to Monopoly | |
| |
| |
| The Enactment and Amendment of Section 7 of the Clayton Act | |
| |
| |
| The Supreme Court and Merger Analysis Since 1950 | |
| |
| |
| Government Merger Guidelines and Premerger Notification | |
| |
| |
| Modern Lower Court Applications | |
| |
| |
| Patent and Intellectual Property Issues | |
| |
| |
| An Introduction to Patents | |
| |
| |
| Price, Territorial, and Use Restrictions | |
| |
| |
| Settlement and Accumulation | |
| |
| |
| Enforcement of Patents as an Antitrust Violation | |
| |
| |
| Price Discrimination and the Robinson-Patman Act | |
| |
| |
| The Origin and Enforcement of Section 2 of the Clayton Act | |
| |
| |
| The Statute Analyzed | |
| |
| |
| Injury to Competition | |
| |
| |
| Defenses | |
| |
| |
| The Enforcement and Adjudication Process | |
| |
| |
| Public Enforcement | |
| |
| |
| Private Enforcement | |
| |
| |
| Federal Judiciary | |
| |
| |
| Limits on the Scope of the Antitrust System | |
| |
| |
| Jurisdictional Restrictions | |
| |
| |
| The Effect of Government Intervention | |
| |
| |
| The Changing Balance in Antitrust | |
| |
| |
| App.: Sherman Act | |
| |
| |
| App.: Clayton Act | |
| |
| |
| App.: Federal Trade Commission Act | |
| |
| |
| Index | |