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Unions and Antitrust
Source: The Smith Center
Author: Charles W. Baird
Country: United States
E-mail: cbaird@csuhayward.edu

Essay examining antitrust issues in the labor market.

The Federal Trade Commission: a 1999 Report Card
Source: The Federalist Society
Author: Dan Oliver
Country: United States

Transcript of a speech sponsored by the Federalist Society.

The real economic costs of the Microsoft decision
Source: Institute for Policy Innovation
Author: Gary Robbins and Aldona Robbins
Country: United States

For over two years, the federal government has been pursuing antitrust action against Microsoft. Much heated debate has surrounded the case, most of it revolving around legal issues. But the broader ramifications for risk assessment, investor confidence and the general economy have been largely ignored. The cloud hanging over Microsoft has already done serious damage to the economy. (9/26/00)

The Cost of Merger Delay in Restructuring Industries
Source: Heartland Institute
Author: Robert Ekelund Jr. Ph.D. and Mark Thornton Ph.D.
Country: United States

Regulatory delays of corporate mergers have substantial societal costs. Regulatory review should therefore be strictly limited. Heartland Policy Study No. 90. Executive summary provided. Available in either HTML or Adobe Acrobat format (PDF). (6/23/99)

Microsoft Redux: Anatomy of a Baseless Lawsuit
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Robert A. Levy
Country: United States

The government has Microsoft up against a wall, and is using antiquated ideas to persecute a vibrant, successful company. This study examines the many facets of the DOJ's case against Microsoft. The document is available in PDF format.(9/29/99)

The government's war on mergers: The fatal conceit of antitrust policy
Source: Cato Institute
Author: William F. Shughart II
Country: United States

Opposition to mergers often comes from competitors faced with the prospect of a larger, more aggressive rival. Because they respond to such demands, antitrust authorities all too often succeed, not in keeping prices from rising, but in keeping them from falling. Policy Analysis. (10/98)

How the market self-polices against predatory pricing
Source: CEI
Author: Donald J. Boudreaux and Andrew N. Kleit
Country: United States

Economic research shows that predatory pricing is unlikely to result in a monopoly because rivals of predators have both incentive and ability to withstand the predatory onslaught. Moreover, customers and suppliers of predatory pricers also often have incentive and ability to thwart predatory efforts. Full text in Adobe PDF. (6/96)

Antitrust policy as corporate welfare
Source: CEI
Author: Clyde Wayne Crews
Country: United States

Antitrust purports to protect consumers by policing monopoly power, but its rhetoric of protecting the public doesn't fit with its actual tendency to penalize beneficial and efficient practices. Full text in Adobe PDF. (07/97)

Microsoft, monopoly, and consumer harm
Source: Stan Liebowitz and Stephen Margolis
Country: United States

According to this extract from the book, "Winners, Losers, and Microsoft," Microsoft appears responsible for a good portion of the software price decreases that have occurred in the last decade. (3/99)

A formula for antitrust assaults
Source: SBSC
Author: Raymond J. Keating
Country: United States

Ever wonder how the various antitrust arms of the federal government decide whether or not to investigate and perhaps stop certain business mergers? The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index guides the government. Does any of this have anything to do with the real world and the real economy, or is it merely a measurement used to justify the implementation of bad law and the use of political power? (4/18/00)

The truth about Sherman
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Country: United States

Although widely hailed as a measure adopted to protect the public, passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act was likely motivated by the self interest of some market players and by a desire to shore up the tariff system. (11/9/99)

Antitrust reform: Predatory practices and the competitive process
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute/The Review of Austrian Economics
Author: Dominick T. Armentano
Country: United States

Among economists, antitrust legislation has fallen into disfavor as a result of new theories of competition and a reexamination of classic antitrust cases that shows no grounds for intervention. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required)(11/9/99)

The protectionist roots of antitrust
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute/The Review of Austrian Economics
Author: Donald J. Boudreaux and Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Country: United States

A reexamination of the late nineteenth century push for antitrust legislation reveals evidence that it was a smokescreen for protectionism. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (11/9/99)

Austrian monopoly theory - A critique
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute/Journal of Libertarian Studies
Author: Walter Block
Country: United States

Prof. Block argues that monopolies can exist only when there is state action to guarantee exclusive trading privileges. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required) (11/9/99)

The Department of Justice's unjustifiable inquisition of Microsoft
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Author: Adam D. Thierer
Country: United States

In detail, the author lays out the case that Microsoft has done nothing inappropriate in its competitive practices, and in fact controls only 4% of the world software market. (11/97)

Total repeal of antitrust legislation: A critique of Bork, Brozen, and Posner
Source: Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author: Walter Block
Country: United States

Scholar Walter Block critiques three otherwise free-market thinkers who support limited antitrust regulation, including Richard Posner, the mediator in the Microsoft case. (Adobe Acrobat plugin required)

Internet Access: Government Intervention or Private Innovation?
Source: Mackinac Center
Author: Donald L. Alexander
Country: United States

"Government forced access proposals would stifle innovation, limit competition, and raise prices in the growing market for Internet access." (12/99)

Microsoft's 'applications barrier to entry': The missing 70,000 programs
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Richard McKenzie
Country: United States

This report refutes Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's argument that Microsoft holds an applications barrier to entry because of the multitude of applications written for the Windows platform. It is available in Adobe PDF. (8/31/00)

Trial and error: The government's case against Microsoft
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Helen Chaney
Country: United States

"[T]he case against Microsoft is not about protecting consumers or creating healthy competition in the market. It's about helping frustrated competitors in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to attain market share that they have been unable to win from Microsoft on their own merits." (5/00)

Traffic jam
Source: Reason
Author: Diane Katz and Henry Payne
Country: United States

Auto dealers are harnessing government regulators to freeze out Internet-based competition. (6/23/00)

The real economic costs of the Microsoft decision
Source: Institute for Policy Innovation
Author: Gary Robbins and Aldona Robbins
Country: United States

This report examines the economic consequences of the Microsoft case. (9/26/00)

Antitrust law: affirmative action for uncompetitive businesses
Source: NTU
Author: Mark Schmidt
Country: United States

Since Congress enacted the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, government officials have always claimed to be working on behalf of the people when attacking business interests. In reality, self-interest motivates almost all antitrust activity undertaken by government. (12/11/00)

Microsoft breakup would cost consumers billions and reduce competition
Source: Association for Competitive Technology
Author: Stan Liebowitz
Country: United States
E-mail: info@actonline.org

The study shows that the government's antitrust remedy would also lead to higher software development and support costs, would hinder innovation of Windows operating systems, and create a complex, confusing marketplace for PC consumers. (Study requires Adobe Acrobat to read.)

The real economic costs of the Microsoft decision
Source: IPI
Country: United States

"If as little as a quarter of the $210 billion drop in Microsoft's market value since the start of the year is a result of the antitrust lawsuit, government action will cost the average American $507 in foregone goods and services over the next eleven years." (Adobe Acrobat) (9/26/00)

The Microsoft break-up would cost American consumers
Source: Association for Competitive Technology
Country: United States

"Despite the claims of federal anti-trust lawyers, the proposed break-up of Microsoft into two companies would actually reduce competition in some computer technology sectors and force more than $50 billion in software price increases upon American consumers over the next three years." (Adobe Acrobat) (9/25/00)

Microsoft's appealing case
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Robert A. Levy and Alan Reynolds
Country: United States

"The Justice Department's case [against Microsoft] will crumble as a result of procedural errors, flawed fact-finding, wrongheaded legal conclusions, and Jackson's preposterous plan to break up the software company most directly responsible for America's high-tech revolution." (11/9/00)

The Antitrust Terrible 10: Why the most reviled 'anti-competitive' business practices can benefit consumers in the New Economy
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.
Country: United States

This report examines some of the most "despised" business behavior — such as collusion and megamergers — and shows how they can be pro-competitive and pro-consumer. It is available in Adobe PDF. (06/28/01)

The Microsoft Antitrust Appeal
Source: Americans for Technology Leadership / Hudson Institute
Author: Alan Reynolds
Country: United States

This report examines Judge Thomas Jackson's "Findings of Fact" against Microsoft, and challenges the accuracy, consistency, and relevancy of those findings. It is available in Adobe PDF. (06/01)

Swiss Cheese Windows: Estimating Some Costs of the Nine State Remedy
Source: Association for Competitive Technology
Author: Stan J. Liebowitz
Country: United States

Liebowitz examines the alternate remedies from nine states in the Microsoft antitrust case, and concludes that they will cost software developers and consumers $80 billion. This report is available in Adobe PDF. (02/21/02)

Antitrust enforcement in the Information Technology Economy after United States vs. Microsoft
Source: CompTIA
Author: Lars Liebeler and Thaler Liebeler
Country: United States

The authors examine the future of antitrust enforcement in the Information Technology Economy with regards to the recent Microsoft case. The report is available in Adobe PDF. (10/01)

Antitrust's greatest hits
Source: Reason
Author: David B. Kopel and Joseph Bast
Country: United States

Kopel and Bast look at the foolish precedents behind the government's persecution of Microsoft. (11/01)

The struggle for liberty in today's academy
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: Tibor R. Machan
Country: United States

Government funding of higher education throws up major roadblocks to the advancement of ideas that question the role of the state. (11/05/01)

Online Travel Services: The antitrust assault on Orbitz — and on consumers
Source: The Cato Institute
Author: James V. DeLong
Country: United States

Despite having lots of competition, antitrust arguments are being used to cripple Orbitz. The intensity of this assault suggests that the other industry players really want to suppress competition. Full text of analysis available in PDF format. (06/04/02)

Conservation through Collusion: Antitrust Barriers to Cooperative Fishery Management
Source: Social Science Research Network
Author: Jonathan Adler
Country: United States

An analysis of how antitrust law negatively impacts the ability to conserve resources. (2002)

Where the Microsoft case now stands: A legal guide from the Association for Competitive Technology
Source: Association for Competitive Technology
Author: Gene Schaerr
Country: United States

Schaerr reviews the key issues left in the Microsoft case. (PDF file)

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