Antitrust and the Supreme Court / David Ramsey.

For more than one hundred years, the Sherman Act and its amendments have defined the legal framework supporting the American economy, but this framework has not remained unchanged. Antitrust laws have been revised and re-interpreted, resulting in changes in enforcement. Ramsey examines the Supreme C...

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Main Author: Ramsey, David, 1979-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.
Series:Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: The Business of the Roberts Court; CHAPTER 2: The Common Law; The English Common Law Prohibiting Restraints of Trade; The Common Law and the Sherman Act; Taft's Addyston Pipe Ruling; CHAPTER 3: The Rule of Reason; Theodore Roosevelt and the Northern Securities Case; White's Rule of Reason; Louis D. Brandeis and the New Freedom; CHAPTER 4: Monopolistic Competition; The Problems of U.S. Steel; Edward Chamberlin's New Theory of Monopoly; Appalachian Coals and the Decline of CompetitionPolicy; CHAPTER 5: Workable Competition; THE BLUE EAGLE
  • SOCONY AND PER SE REGIMENTATIONJ. M CLARK AND THE RISE OF WORKABLECOMPETITION; CHAPTER 6: The Harvard School; Learned Hand's ALCOA Decision; Warren's Contributions to Anti-Merger Policy; Joe Bain and the Harvard School; CHAPTER 7: The Chicago School; Robert Bork's The Antitrust Paradox; Reassessing Vertical Restraints of Trade; CHAPTER 8: Law and Economics at the University of Chicago; The Origins of Chicago School Reform; Tying Arrangements; Predatory Pricing; Vertical Price Fixing; The Chicago School; CHAPTER 9: Law and Economics Before the Supreme Court; Tying Arrangements
  • Predatory PricingVertical Restraints; Robinson-Patman and the Limits of Chicago SchoolReform; CHAPTER 10: Post-Chicago Antitrust; Homo Economicus: Dead or Alive?; Antitrust in the Obama Administration; CHAPTER 11: Antitrust Law and the Judicial Power; Notes; Table of Cases; Bibliography; Index