Tag: History
The Chicago School and the Irrelevance of Predation
Everybody knows that Chicago scholars dismissed predatory pricing as a practice of concern for antitrust law due to its alleged unprofitability, both relative and...
What Should We Do About The Big Tech Monopolies?
In this essay, I pursue two paths. In the first, I revisit the beginnings of U.S. antitrust law to emphasize that that law has...
Antitrust and Big Tech Breakups: Piercing the Popular Myths by Cautious...
“Break ‘em up with antitrust” is a popular and surging political drumbeat. This essay argues for a closer look at history and experience. They...
A Brief History of Imperfect Competition
I explore the history of the idea of imperfect competition in economics. Its foundations were in the Nineteenth Century, but largely outside the Anglo-sphere....
“Not” Madison
This essay challenges the claim that President James Madison, the namesake of the Trump Administration’s “New Madison” Approach to Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law,...
The Independence of Colombia’s Competition Authority: Still a Pending Task
By Alfonso Miranda Londoño (Javeriana University Law School)1
1. Introduction
On May 14, 2020, the Fifth Section of Colombia’s Council of State issued a ruling, by...
(Nearly) A Century with the ICN
By Maria Coppola, Elizabeth Kraus, Cynthia Lagdameo, Paul O’Brien & Randolph Tritell (Federal Trade Commission)1
Nearly twenty years after its founding, the International Competition Network...
The Consumer Welfare Debate Comes to the FTC Hearings: Who’s on...
November 2018
The Consumer Welfare Debate Comes to the FTC Hearings: Who’s on the Right Side of History? By Joseph V. Coniglio (Wilson Sonsini Goodrich...
Six Severe Challenges in Implementing China’s Anti-Monopoly Law
Six Severe Challenges in Implementing China’s Anti-Monopoly Law 1 By Wang Xiaoye (Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)2
August 1st, 2018...
2008-2018: A Retrospect of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement System and Prospect...
2008-2018: A Retrospect of China's Anti-Monopoly Law Enforcement System and Prospect and Commentary on the New System By Dr. John Wan (Global Law Office, Beijing)
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