High Stakes Antitrust
Subtitle: The Last Hurrah?
Contributors: Aei-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies (Corporate Author); Robert William Hahn (Editor)
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute Press; AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780815733959
Subjects: Finance; Political Science; Business / Economics / Finance; United States; Politics/International Relations; Antitrust; Government & Business; Industries - General; Antitrust law; Public Policy - Economic Policy
First sentence: After almost two decades in which antitrust policy veered sharply toward the philosophy that less is more, the policy changed in the late 1990s when the U.S. Department of Justice mounted challenges to the practices of successful service enterprises dealing in software (Microsoft), consumer payment cards (Visa and MasterCard), and air travel (American Airlines).