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Microsoft and the Browser Wars: Fit to Be Tied
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Robert Levy
Country: United States

Policy analysis looks at the antitrust case against Gates' Microsoft and asks whether antitrust law can apply to software. (2/98)

The failure of antitrust policy
Source: FEE
Author: D. T. Armentano
Country: United States

"[A]ntitrust is a generally failed and discredited policy. The laws, allegedly enacted to protect consumers, have been used historically to harass efficient corporations that have increased market output and lowered market price." (1994)

Breaking Windows: Estimating the Cost of Breaking up Microsoft Windows
Source: Association for Competitive Technology
Author: Stan J. Liebowitz
Country: United States

One of the more extreme proposals from critics of Microsoft is for the government to break up the Windows operating system and give pieces to Microsoft's competitors. In this study, Liebowitz shows how this could increase software development costs alone by about $30 billion dollars in the first three years. (4/30/99)

The rhetoric of antitrust
Source: FEE
Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Country: United States

"In theory antitrust regulation promotes competition in the marketplace but in reality its results are often anticompetitive. It is routinely used by businesses having problems competing as a tool to keep their competitors from cutting prices, expanding production, and differentiating their products." (1987)

The paradox of the statist businessman
Source: Heartland Institute/Nevada Journal
Author: Ted Forstmann
Country: United States

Too many businesspeople have become very cozy with government officials who are willing to stifle competition and subsidize companies in return for support. (Adobe Acrobat) (9/99)

Natural monopoly and yardstick competition
Source: IEA
Author: William B. Shew
Country: United States

Around the world, regulators are exhibiting revived interest in "yardstick competition" to create indirect competition among local distribution monopolies. But the theoretical promise of yardstick regulation seems unlikely to be realized in practice. (Adobe Acrobat) (12/00)

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