Reforming Antitrust - Softcover

Devlin, Alan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108999905 ISBN 13: 9781108999908

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Industrial consolidation, digital platforms, and changing political views have spurred debate about the interplay between public and private power in the United States and have created a bipartisan appetite for potential antitrust reform that would mark the most profound shift in US competition policy in the past half-century. While neo-Brandeisians call for a reawakening of antitrust in the form of a return to structuralism and a concomitant rejection of economic analysis founded on competitive effects, proponents of the status quo look on this state of affairs with alarm. Scrutinizing the latest evidence, Alan J. Devlin finds a middle ground. US antitrust laws warrant revision, he argues, but with far more nuance than current debates suggest. He offers a new vision of antitrust reform, achieved by refining our enforcement policies and jettisoning an unwarranted obsession with minimizing errors of economic analysis.

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About the Author

Alan J. Devlin is a partner with Latham & Watkins LLP and was Acting Deputy Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition. He is also Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. His publications include Antitrust & Patent Law, Principles of Law & Economics, and over thirty articles published at Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Northwestern, and elsewhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108999905
• ISBN 13: 9781108999908
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330