Antitrust Law, Second Edition

In this revised edition of "Antitrust Law", Richard A. Posner explains his call for an economic approach to antitrust law to new generations of lawyers and students. He updates and amplifies his approach as it applies to the developments, both legal and economic, in the antitrust field since 1976.

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Richard A. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School. His many books on the application of economics to law include "Economic Analysis of Law," now in its fifth edition.

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PrefaceIntroductionPart One: Setting the Stage1. The Costs--and Occasionally the Benefits--of Monopoly2. An Overview of the Antitrust LawsPart Two: Collusion3. Price Fixing and the Oligopoly Problem4. Breaking Up Large Firms5. Horizontal Mergers, Potential Competition, and Market Definition6. Two Problems of CollusionPart Three: Exclusionary Practices7. Exclusionary Practices (I)8. Exclusionary Practices (II): The New EconomyPart Four: Administering Antitrust Law9. Toward the Simplification of Antitrust Doctrine10. The Problem of EnforcementAppendix: An Introduction to the Formal Analysis of MonopolyIndex