Antitrust and the Supreme Court / David Ramsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsey, David, 1979-

Series:

Law and society (New York, N.Y.)

Law and society : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antitrust law--United States.

Antitrust law.

United States. Supreme Court.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For more than one hundred years, the Sherman Act and its amendments have defined the legal framework supporting the American economy, but this framework has not remained unchanged. Antitrust laws have been revised and re-interpreted, resulting in changes in enforcement. Ramsey examines the Supreme Court's institutional role in balancing the contentions of the political branches, the business community, the enforcement agencies, and the advocates of various schools of economic thought, incorporating the arguments of each into a coherent, flexible and reasonably stable body of law regulating com

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1: The Business of the Roberts Court; CHAPTER 2: The Common Law; The English Common Law Prohibiting Restraints of Trade; The Common Law and the Sherman Act; Taft's Addyston Pipe Ruling; CHAPTER 3: The Rule of Reason; Theodore Roosevelt and the Northern Securities Case; White's Rule of Reason; Louis D. Brandeis and the New Freedom; CHAPTER 4: Monopolistic Competition; The Problems of U.S. Steel; Edward Chamberlin's New Theory of Monopoly; Appalachian Coals and the Decline of CompetitionPolicy; CHAPTER 5: Workable Competition; THE BLUE EAGLE

SOCONY AND PER SE REGIMENTATIONJ.M CLARK AND THE RISE OF WORKABLECOMPETITION; CHAPTER 6: The Harvard School; Learned Hand's ALCOA Decision; Warren's Contributions to Anti-Merger Policy; Joe Bain and the Harvard School; CHAPTER 7: The Chicago School; Robert Bork's The Antitrust Paradox; Reassessing Vertical Restraints of Trade; CHAPTER 8: Law and Economics at the University of Chicago; The Origins of Chicago School Reform; Tying Arrangements; Predatory Pricing; Vertical Price Fixing; The Chicago School; CHAPTER 9: Law and Economics Before the Supreme Court; Tying Arrangements

Predatory PricingVertical Restraints; Robinson-Patman and the Limits of Chicago SchoolReform; CHAPTER 10: Post-Chicago Antitrust; Homo Economicus: Dead or Alive?; Antitrust in the Obama Administration; CHAPTER 11: Antitrust Law and the Judicial Power; Notes; Table of Cases; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593325275

1593325274

OCLC:

787844747