As great admirers of The Boss and as fans of live entertainment, we share in the popular dismay over rising ticket prices for live performances. But we have been asked as antitrust scholars to examine the proposed merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster, and we do so with the objectivity and...

This Article critique the role that the partial equilibrium trade-off paradigm plays in the debate over the definition of “consumer welfare” that courts should employ when developing and applying antitrust doctrine. The paper contends that common reliance on the paradigm distorts the debate...

This article examines and critiques the distinction that courts currently draw under Section 2 of the Sherman Act between quot;competition on the merits,quot; on the one hand, and contractual exclusion, on the other. The article finds the source of this distinction in neoclassical price theory,...