"Can a price ever be too low? Can competition ever be ruinous? Questions like these have always accompanied American antitrust law. They testify to the difficulty of antitrust enforcement, of protecting competition without protecting competitors. As the business practice that most directly...

1. The economics of predatory pricing -- 2. The two freedoms and British Common Law -- 3. American economists and destructive competition -- 4. Predatory pricing in the formative era of antitrust law -- 5. Predatory pricing in the structuralist era -- 6. The Chicago School and the irrelevance of...

The goal of the paper is to investigate the extent of the influence of American antitrust tradition on the foundation and early years of European competition policy. This as part of a wider research program aiming at assessing the role of economic theory in the development of antitrust law and...

Most late 19th-century US economists gave a rather cool welcome to the Sherman Act (1890), but not to the Clayton and FTC Acts (1914). A large literature has identified several explanations for this attitude, calling into play the relation between big business and competition, a non-neoclassical...

Most of the current critical views on American antitrust law focus on a supposed misinterpretation by modern, welfare-driven antitrust enforcers of the true meaning of the competition principle. The paper contributes to the debate by reconstructing the principle’s historical origin. While it...

The paper deals with the mysterious persistence of the Chicago approach as the main analytical engine driving antitrust enforcement in the U.S. While the approach has been almost completely replaced in contemporary industrial economics by the so-called Post-Chicago view, with its superior...