Title: United States’ Antitrust: At the Crossroads
Abstract: The enforcement and interpretation of the United States’ antitrust laws have gone through several phases of stringent and lax enforcement over the nearly 100 years since the Sherman Act’s passage. It is tempting to interpret the recent permissive posture of the courts and the antitrust enforcement agencies as yet another phase that will pass with a new restructuring of the Supreme Court and the lower courts, and a new antitrust philosophy at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission. Such an intepretation would be misleading, however, in two respects. First, it would fail to recognize the important and I think permanent shift in judicial opinion as to the proper role of economic analysis in antitrust proceedings. Second, it would ignore the shift in thinking within the economics’ profession regarding the weight of evidence in support of the various provisions of the antitrust laws.
Publication Year: 1986
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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