The Antitrust Enterprise

出版者:Harvard University Press

作者:Herbert Hovenkamp

页数:376

出版时间:2008-03-31

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780674027411

图书标签:竞争法法律英语法律

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.