Reforming Antitrust

A nuanced examination of how antitrust law must change to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century economy.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Antitrust Today: 1. Competition Law's role; 2. Antitrust - Fact, fiction, and the unknown; 3. The missing link - concentration and market power; Part II. The Case for Change: 4. Warning signs in the economy - has competition declined?; 5. A liberal call to arms, but is deconcentration the answer?; 6. Testing the neo-brandeisian vision; Part III. Antitrust Reform: 7. Taking a finger off the scale - revisiting decision theory; 8. Rethinking the consumer-welfare standard; 9. The antitrust evolution; Conclusion. Key recommendations.

About the author

Alan J. Devlin is a partner with Latham & Watkins LLP and was Acting Deputy Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition. He is also Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. His publications include Antitrust & Patent Law, Principles of Law & Economics, and over thirty articles published at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Northwestern, and elsewhere.

Summary

The rise of digital platforms and technology has hastened a debate about the regulation of corporate power in the United States. This book is for legislators, antitrust enforcers, private lawyers, and academics interested in questions of how best to reform our antitrust laws to address contemporary challenges.

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'Well-written and engaging even to the lay reader, this new volume is a must-read for anyone interested in antitrust reform. Devlin charts a careful middle course between our current weakened system of antitrust enforcement and the calls for radical reform coming from many quarters today. This is a book with the potential to make the world a better place.' Mark A. Lemley, Stanford Law School

Product details

• Authors: Alan Devlin, Alan (Georgetown University Devlin, Alan J. Devlin, Alan J. (Georgetown University Devlin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781316518342
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51834-2
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Antitrust, comparative law, Central / national / federal government policies, Economics of industrial organisation, Central government policies, Economics of industrial organization, Competition law / Antitrust law