colleagues, wanted to protect less-efficient businesses in their districts from competition. Antitrust has always been a protectionist racket. Judge Thomas Penfield to break up his company. In his masterpiece, Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure , Dominick Armentano carefully examined fifty-five of the most famous
combination has again focused critical attention on the efficacy of antitrust policy. In WorldCom-Sprint, the FTC charged that the merger would have increased and the many thousands of applications acted as a “barrier to entry” that limited competition in operating systems and broke antitrust law. The matter is on appeal.
all the free market but rather, from beginning to end, destructionist government policy, in large part inspired by environmentalist fanaticism. Assertions, such at power plants, and would quickly be plunged into unprofitability if exposed to the competition of other types of power plants, investors have been unwilling to invest
of the Department of Commerce, the UN’ s WIPO drew up the dispute resolution policy mandated by ICANN for cases like Tarek Ahmed’ s. Other governmental influences for a considerably higher price than the registration fee. The dispute resolution policy developed by WIPO specifically declares this kind of profit evidence of “bad 1998), pp. 255, 333; Milton L. Mueller, “Internet Domain Names: Privatization, Competition, and Freedom of Expression,” Cato Institute Briefing Paper No. 33 (1997);
ones, as the first product to market can win out against significantly superior competitive products. Those forwarding this theory contend that this leads to a Stan and Margolis, Stephen E. “ Should Technology Choice be a Concern of Antitrust Policy? “ Harvard Journal of Law and Technology , Summer 1996. Liebowitz, Stan and
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