Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (American Casebook Series)
by Andrew I. Gavil
from West
The Second Edition builds on the strengths of the first with complete updating of all cases, text, Notes, and Sidebars, taking into account the latest developments and commentary. It includes expanded economic coverage, a thoroughly revised chapter on dominant firm conduct, a thoroughly revised chapter on distribution restraints that comprehensively addresses the Supreme Court's Leegin decision, revised and expanded treatment of the analysis of competitor collaborations and joint ventures, updating of the state-of-the art conspiracy and merger chapters, and increased attention to international and comparative developments. Some older cases have been reduced to notes in favor of newer cases that better reflect current trends in antitrust analysis. Problems and skills exercises have also been refreshed and augmented.
Antitrust Law And Economics In A Nutshell (Nutshell Series)
by Ernest Gellhorn
from West Group Publishing
Reliable guide on antitrust law. Special attention is given to the expanded role of evidentiary standards and the procedural screens in determining litigation outcomes. A look into recent revisions of public enforcement, immunity-related doctrines, and government intervention is also included.
Antitrust Law, Second Edition
by Richard A. Posner
from University Of Chicago Press
In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students. He updates and amplifies his approach as it applies to the developments, both legal and economic, in the antitrust field since 1976. The "new economy," for example, has presented a host of difficult antitrust questions, and in an entirely new chapter, Posner explains how the economic approach can be applied to new industries such as software manufacturers, Internet service providers, and those that provide communications equipment and services.
"The antitrust laws are here to stay," Posner writes, "and the practical question is how to administer them better-more rationally, more accurately, more expeditiously, more efficiently." This fully revised classic will continue to be the standard work in the field.
Banking Law and Regulation (Casebook)
Antitrust Paradox
by Robert H. Bork
from Free Press
Antitrust: The Case for Repeal
by Dominick T Armentano
from Ludwig von Mises Institute
This tour de force rips the intellectual cover off antitrust regulation to reveal it as a bludgeon used by businesses against their competitors. Unlike many critics, Professor Armentano carries the logic of his analysis to the fullest possible extent: "My position on antitrust has never been ambiguous," he writes. "All of the antitrust laws and all of the enforcement agency authority should be summarily repealed. The antitrust apparatus cannot be reformed; it must be abolished."
Professor Armentano begins with the most rigorous and revealing account of the Microsoft antitrust battle to appear in print. He further discusses other recent cases, including Toys 'R' Us, Staples, and Intel, as well as many historical cases. He covers nearly every conceivable rationale for antitrust, including price fixing, predatory pricing, product tie-ins, vertical and horizontal mergers, and many more.
This is a crucially important work in our new era of antitrust enforcement. This 2nd edition is completely revised and includes a treatment of Murray Rothbard's contributions to the theory of monopoly and competition. It ends by arguing that antitrust is contrary to both free-market economic theory and the protection of property rights in a free society.
Hornbook on The Law of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook (Hornbook Series Student Edition)
by Lawrence Anthony Sullivan
from Thomson West
This text offers detailed and comprehensive treatment of basic rules, principles, and issues relating to antitrust law to meet the needs of both students and practitioners for treatment of major antitrust areas. The authors address new areas, treat a number of areas more fully, and thoroughly reassess core concepts like monopolization and horizontal and vertical restraint.
Antitrust Analysis: Problems, Text, Cases
by Phillip Areeda
from Aspen Publishers
The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy
from Oxford University Press, USA
The Antitrust Revolution: Economics, Competition, and Policy, 4/e, examines the critical role of economic analysis in recent antitrust case decisions and policy. The book consists of economic studies of twenty of the most significant antitrust cases of recent years, fourteen of them new to this edition and six updated from the third edition. These cases include alleged anticompetitive practices by Microsoft, Intel, and American Airlines; mergers-proposed or consummated-by AOL and TimeWarner, GE and Honeywell, MCI WorldCom and Sprint, and BP Amoco and ARCO; and other competitive issues such as bid rigging on school milk contracts, professional sports league practices, prescription drug pricing, and vertical restraints by manufacturers in regard to distributors. New overview essays precede the four sections of the book: Horizontal Structure, Horizontal Practices, Vertical and Related Market Issues, and Network Issues.
Commissioned and edited by John E. Kwoka and Lawrence J. White, the case studies are written by prominent economists who participated in the proceedings. These economists were responsible for helping to formulate the economic issues, undertake the necessary economic research, and offer the economic arguments in court. As a result, they are uniquely qualified to describe and analyze the cases. Fully updated with the most current examples, this volume provides detailed and comprehensive insight into the central role that is now played and will continue to be played by economics and economists in the antitrust process. The Antitrust Revolution, 4/e, is ideal for undergraduate and graduate classes in industrial organization, government policy, and antitrust/regulation law and economics. It is also a useful reference book for lawyers and economists--both academics and practitioners--who are interested in the types of economic analyses that have been applied in recent antitrust cases.
A companion website is now available at www.oup.com/antitrustrevolution. New to the fourth edition, the site features cases from the previous three editions.
The Antitrust Enterprise: Principle and Execution
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 classic The Antitrust Paradox was published more than thirty years ago. It confronts not only the problems of poorly designed, overly complex, and inconsistent antitrust rules but also the current disarray of antitrust's rule of reason, offering a coherent and workable set of solutions. The result is an antitrust policy that is faithful to the consumer welfare principle but that is also more readily manageable by the federal courts and other antitrust tribunals.
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