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Since we abhor suspense, we will quickly answer the question our title poses: No. As a general matter, bundled discounting schemes lower prices to consumers unless they are predatory - that is to say, unless they exclude rivals and thereby permit the bundled discounter to price free of...
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The recent revival of political interest in antitrust has resurfaced a longstanding debate about the role of industrial concentration and monopoly in enabling Hitler's rise to power and the Third Reich's wars of aggression. Proponents of stronger antitrust enforcement argue that monopolies and...
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Judges and scholars frequently describe antitrust as a common law system predicated on open-textured statutes, but that description fails to capture a historically persistent phenomenon; judicial disregard of the plain meaning of the statutory texts and manifest purposes of Congress. This...
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U.S. antitrust law has been profoundly influenced by a historical aversion to direct federal superintendence of corporations. This ideological impulse began with Antifederalist opposition to Madison's proposal to grant Congress a general incorporation power and carried over to the Progressive...
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Many of the classic tying cases involved tied products that were common staples such as button fasteners, canned ink, dry ice, or salt. These products were sold in competitive markets, presumably at prices very close to cost. For most of them the most likely explanations for the tie were quality...
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