The regulatory revolution at the FTC : a thirty-year perspective on competition and consumer protection / edited by James Campbell Cooper.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooper, James C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade regulation--United States.

Trade regulation.

Consumer protection--Law and legislation--United States.

Consumer protection.

United States. Federal Trade Commission.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission had embarked on an activist consumer protection and antitrust agenda which resulted in severe public and congressional backlash, including calls to abolish the agency. Beginning in 1981, under the direction of Chairman James Miller, the FTC started down a new path of economically-oriented policymaking. This new approach helped save the FTC and laid the groundwork for it to grow into the world-class consumer protection and antitrust agency that it is today. This book examines this period of transition in light of continuing debate about the FTC's mission.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Foreword""; ""INTRODUCTION | PLANTING THE SEEDS OF THE REGULATORY REVOLUTION""; ""1. Causes and Implications of the Regulatory Revolution at the FTC""; ""2. Politics and Policy in 1981""; ""PART I | JURISDICTION, POLICY, AND PROCEDURE""; ""3. The Federal Trade Commission and the Assignment of Regulatory Tasks""; ""4. The Future of FTC Jurisdiction over Antitrust and Consumer Protection: A Commentary""; ""5. Do Expert Agencies Outperform Generalist Judges? Some Preliminary Evidence from the Federal Trade Commission""

""6. Paradigm Shopping: Section 5, the FTC, and the Courts""""PART II | CONSUMER PROTECTION""; ""7. Consumer Protection and James Miller at the Federal Trade Commission""; ""8. In Defense of the Pfizer Factors""; ""9. The FTC Then and Now: Privacy""; ""10. Regulation and Behavioral Economics in the Post-Miller FTC""; ""PART III | ANTITRUST""; ""11. Tying to Mitigate the Deadweight Loss of Monopoly Pricing""; ""12. Section 5 and the Innovation Curve""; ""CONCLUSION | IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE FTC ENFORCEMENT""; ""13. Lessons for Setting Priorities""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 21, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-934632-1

0-19-998929-X

OCLC:

922972395