Antitrust Enterprise Principle and Execution

Name: Antitrust Enterprise Principle and Execution
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ISBN: 9780674027411

ISBN-10: 0674027418

ISBN-13: 9780674027411

Edition: 2005

Authors: Herbert Hovenkamp

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After thirty years, the debate over antitrust's ideology has quieted. Most now agree that the protection of consumer welfare should be the only goal of antitrust laws. Execution, however, is another matter. The rules of antitrust remain unfocused, insufficiently precise, and excessively complex. The problem of poorly designed rules is severe, because in the short run rules weigh much more heavily than principles. 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 Antitrust Enterprise is the first authoritative and compact exposition of antitrust law since Robert Bork's…

Book details

Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Limits and Possibilities



The Legal and Economic Structure of the Antitrust Laws



The Design of Antitrust Rules



The Promises and Hazards of Private Antitrust Enforcement



Expert Testimony and the Predicament of Antitrust Fact Finding



Traditional Antitrust Rules



Unreasonable Exercises of Market Power



Combinations of Competitors



Dominant Firms and Exclusionary Practices



Antitrust and Distribution



The National Policy on Business Mergers



Regulation, Innovation, and Connectivity



Antitrust under Regulation and Deregulation



The Conflict between Antitrust and Intellectual Property Rights



Network Industries and Computer Platform Monopoly


Epilogue: Antitrust Reform


Notes


Index