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kobvindex_HPB1229506424
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1 online resource
ISBN:
9783631408742
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3631408749
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9783631753880
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3631753888
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Cover -- Introduction: Antitrust Economics, Policy, and Law at the Crossroads: A Reorientation -- I. The Context -- II. Developments in U.S. Antitrust Policy During the 1970s and 1980s -- 1. Antitrust Economics -- 2. Antitrust Enforcement -- a. The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice -- b. The Federal Trade Commission -- 3. Antitrust Adjudication -- 4. Antitrust Legislation -- III. The Source of Reorientation: The Chicago School of Antitrust Analysis -- 1. The Foundations -- 2. Chicago Antitrust Philosophy -- IV. Definition of the Field of Research and Course of Inquiry
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Part 1: Analytical Framework for the Evaluation of Restraints of Competition by Industrial Concentration -- I. Free Enterprise System. Competition, and Public Policy -- 1. Economic Order and Competition -- 2. Nature and Meaning of Competition -- 3. Competition and Public Policy -- II. Economic Evaluation of Industrial Concentration: Theoretical Approach and Public Policy -- 1. Antitrust Policy Objectives -- a. Objectives and Interrelations -- b. Conflicting Objectives -- 2. Elements of the Approach to an Evaluation of Industrial Concentration -- a. Models of Competition
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B. The Structure-, Conduct-, Performance-Paradigm, and the Competitive Process -- c. Effective Competition and Competition Impairment -- d. Intensity of Competition and the Adequate Test -- 3. The Treatment of Competition Impairment and Public Policy Alternatives -- a. Approaches -- b. Rules -- III. Competition and Industrial Concentration -- 1. Concentration and Economic Theory -- a. Nature and Meaning of Economic Concentration -- b. Economic Concentration and Power -- c. Features of Industrial Concentration -- aa. Significance -- bb. Causes -- cc. Effects -- d. Forms of Industrial Concentration
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Aa. Internal Growth -- bb. External Growth -- (1) Horizontal Mergers -- (2) Vertical Mergers -- (3) Conglomerate Mergers -- 2. Measurement of Industrial Concentration -- a. Analysis of Industrial Concentration -- b. Defining the Relevant Market -- c. Measures of Industrial Concentration -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- Part 2: The Central Elements of the Current Theoretical Edifice -- I. The Current Debate on The Goals of Antitrust: Economics or Sociopolitics? -- 1. The Current Efficiency-Orientation -- 2. Evidence of the Goals of Antitrust -- a. Legislative History of the Antitrust Statutes
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B. Adjudicative Development -- c. Plausibility Considerations -- 3. Antitrust Legislation and Rent-Seeking Behavior -- 4. The German Case -- II. Methodology and Theoretical Model Underlying the Evaluation of the Competitiveness of Mergers -- 1. The General Methodology of Analysis -- a. Neoclassical Price Theory as an Instrument of Analysis -- b. Price/Quantity-Interrelations as Indicators of Consumer Welfare -- c. The General Methodology: Conclusions -- 2. Mergers, Efficiency, and the Model for Evaluation -- a. Consumer Welfare and Efficiency: Remarks on Interdependence
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