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Antitrust Policy: A Century of Economic and Legal Thinking

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William Kovacic (School of Law, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
Carl Shapiro (Haas School of Business and Economics Department, University of California, Berkeley)

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Passage of the Sherman Act in the United States in 1890 set the stage for a century of jurisprudence regarding monopoly, cartels, and oligopoly. Among American statutes that regulate commerce, the Sherman Act is unequaled in its generality. The Act outlawed "every contract, combination or conspiracy in restraint of trade" and "monopolization" and treated violations as crimes. By these open-ended commands, Congress gave federal judges extraordinary power to draw lines between acceptable cooperation and illegal collusion, between vigorous competition and unlawful monopolization.

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Paper provided by Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley in its series Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series with number CPC99-009.

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Keywords: antitrust; Sherman Act;

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  1. Kovacic, William E, 1992. "The Influence of Economics on Antitrust Law," Economic Inquiry, Oxford University Press, vol. 30(2), pages 294-306, April.
  2. Shapiro, Carl, 1989. "Theories of oligopoly behavior," Handbook of Industrial Organization, in: R. Schmalensee & R. Willig (ed.), Handbook of Industrial Organization, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 6, pages 329-414 Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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