Reading the book commented will provide an updated view on the current situation of antitrust politics and law in the … United States. The book covers a wide spectrum of issues on market behavior and business practices affected by antitrust … antitrust rules. Consequently, this has increased the rigor required to plaintiffs in courts and before administrative …

This book chapter, published in 2002, argues that courts decide antitrust cases based mainly on their perception of the … “obvious” effects of the practices at issue on consumers. Courts must rely on both theory and evidence in resolving antitrust …

This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws. Its central contention is that the history of … antitrust can only be understood in light of U.S. economic history and the succession of dominant economic policy regimes that … punctuated that history. The antitrust laws and a subset of other related policies have historically focused on the negative …