Tag: Neo-Brandeisian
How the New Anti-Merger Policy May Be the New Antitrust Paradox
Neo-Brandeisian policies that would chill acquisitions by highly capitalized companies, or companies with 30%+ market share in some related market, would remove from the...
The Neo-Brandeisian Approach to Vertical Mergers – A Zipline to Oblivion?
In a major policy switch, federal antitrust agencies recently announced increased hostility to vertical mergers. Stated reasons include skepticism of their benefits and of...
Understanding Basic Principles and Facts About Antitrust to Create a Basis...
The debates around antitrust reform have sometimes involved participants taking extreme positions. In some sense, this is good because it helps attract attention and...
Innovation: A Bridge to the New Brandeisians?
By Richard J. Gilbert* & A. Douglas Melamed**
The push to reform antitrust law by more aggressive enforcement strategies and perhaps new legislation has been...
Potential Competition as Process and Structure
Before the development of formal price theory in the early twentieth century, which included the invention of the theory of “perfect” competition, economists held...
The Old Brandeis and the New Madison in Historical Perspective
The modern progressive view of antitrust, which has its origins in Louis Brandeis’s famous attack on “The Curse of Bigness,” regards large firm size...
Twilight of the Lodestars: Brandeis, Chicago, Schumpeter and the Future of...
By Joseph V. Coniglio1
“All becoming and growing — all that guarantees a future — involves pain.”2 Something like this may be said of U.S....
On the Colombian Antitrust Law and Why It Might Be One...
By Ismael Beltrán Prado (Colombian Competition Authority)1
While writing this short column, The Economist launched a new series of economics briefs, which will be dedicated...
