On September 21, 2011, the French Competition Authority (the "Autorité de la concurrence") issued a landmark decision involving the pay-TV industry ordering, for the first time the de-merger of a cleared merger for non-compliance with the commitments subscribed by the acquirer in 2006. Focusing...

In this article, we use a history of economic thought perspective to analyze the process by which the Chicago School of Antitrust emerged in the 1950s and became dominant in the US. We show the extent to which economic objectives and theoretical views shaped antitrust laws in their inception....