Nearly forty-five years ago, Justice Felix Frankfurter warned that the term "competition" may not be viewed in an "abstract, sterile way." This Paper submits that during the Clinton/Gore Administration, both antitrust enforcement and major public policy regulatory initiatives have ignored...

In its December 1998 issue, the Federal Communications Law Journal published a law review article surveying the Federal Communication Commission's (FCC or Commission) international policy initiatives between 1985 and 1998. As that article explained, one of the centerpieces of the FCC's...

With the creation and implementation of the February 1997 World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services (the February Accord or WTO Agreement), the international telecommunications community has (at least on paper) promised ostensibly to move away from markets...

American antitrust law protects consumers against anticompetitive conduct primarily through Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, both of which are concurrently enforced by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). In addition to enforcing the Sherman Act, the FTC is...

Antitrust policy and mergers provide a steady source of material for economic analysis, both theoretical and empirical. This is no surprise; in few other areas are the problems so obviously economic, so practical, and of such substantial policy significance. Seminal articles in economics such as...