Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy -- Vol. II: Mergers, Vertical Practices, Joint Ventures, Internal Growth, and U.S. and E.U. Law Markovits Richard S.

Specifikacia Welfare Economics and Antitrust Policy -- Vol. II: Mergers, Vertical Practices, Joint Ventures, Internal Growth, and U.S. and E.U. Law Markovits Richard S.

This book is Volume II of a two-volume set on antitrust policy, analyzing the economic efficiency and moral desirability of various kinds of antitrust-policy-coverable conduct and various possible government responses to such conduct, including US and EU antitrust law.The overall study consists of three parts. Part I (Chapters 1-8) introduces readers to the economic, moral, and legal concepts that play important roles in antitrust-policy analysis. Part II (Chapters 9-16) analyzes the impacts of eight types of conduct covered by antitrust policy and various possible government responses to such conduct in terms of their economic efficiency, their impact on liberal moral rights, and their instantiation of various utilitarian and other egalitarian conceptions of the moral good. Part III (Chapters 17-18) provides detailed information on US antitrust law and EU competition law and