Restraints of Trade at Common Law -- Contracts in Restraint of Trade -- Monopoly and Conspiracy -- Antitrust Statutes -- Demand for Regulation -- Sherman Act -- Clayton and Federal Trade Commission Acts -- Institutional Implications -- Antitrust Economics (in a Nutshell) -- Some Basic Explanations and Behavioral Assumptions -- Basic Economic Models -- Current Developments -- Monopoly Problem -- Monopoly Power -- Monopolization: The Uses of Monopoly Power -- Attempts to Monopolize -- Horizontal Restraints: The Evolution of Standards -- Economics of Cartels and Transaction Costs -- Horizontal Agreements and the Structure of Legal Rules: The Relationship Between Per Se Rules and Reasonableness Standards -- Price-Fixing -- Market Allocations and Production Controls -- Boycotts -- Horizontal Restraints: Problems of Proof and Characterization -- Evidence of an Agreement -- Problems of Characterization -- Oligopoly Problem -- Economists and the Oligopoly Problem -- Legal Approaches to the Control of Oligopolies -- Vertical Restraints -- Transaction Cost Economics and Vertical Relationships -- Restrictions on Distribution -- Limits on Supplier Power: Exclusionary Practices -- Mergers -- Tensions in Modern Merger Analysis -- Competitive Effects Overview -- Sherman Act and Mergers Tending to Monopoly -- Enactment and Amendment of Section 7 of the Clayton Act -- Supreme Court and Merger Analysis Since 1950 -- Government Merger Guidelines and Premerger Notification -- Modern Lower Court Applications -- Patent and Intellectual Property Issues -- Introduction to Patents --
Enforcement of Patents as an Antitrust Violation -- Price Discrimination and the Robinson-Patman Act -- Origin and Enforcement of Section 2 of the Clayton Act -- Statute Analyzed -- Injury to Competition -- Defenses -- Enforcement and Adjudication Process -- Public Enforcement -- Private Enforcement -- Federal Judiciary -- Limits on the Scope of the Antitrust System -- Jurisdictional Restrictions -- Effect of Government Intervention -- Changing Balance in Antitrust -- App.: Sherman Act -- App.: Clayton Act -- App.: Federal Trade Commission Act.
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