Alan J. Devlin

Reforming Antitrust (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Industrial consolidation, digital platforms, and changing political views have spurred debate about the interplay between public and private power in the United States and have created a bipartisan appetite for potential antitrust reform that would mark the most profound shift in US competition policy in the past half-century. While neo-Brandeisians call for a reawakening of antitrust in the form of a return to structuralism and a concomitant rejection of economic analysis founded on competitive effects, proponents of the status quo look on this state of affairs with alarm. Scrutinizing the latest evidence, Alan J. Devlin finds a middle ground. US antitrust laws warrant revision, he argues, but with far more nuance than current debates suggest. He offers a new vision of antitrust reform, achieved by refining our enforcement policies and jettisoning an unwarranted obsession with minimizing errors of economic analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009006262
• Artikelnr.: 66176126

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.