United States Antitrust Law and Economics

The book presents a modern approach to understanding U.S. antitrust law, illuminating the economic analysis that dominates modern antitrust analysis in a straightforward way that minimizes technical jargon and makes the underlying economic concepts accessible to a broad audience. The cases are carefully edited to present the facts and issues clearly and succinctly, and are followed with notes and extensive questions that probe the issues raised by the cases and details how to apply modern antitrust economic analysis to them. The result is a book that is quite compact, fewer than 830 pages, but covers the full waterfront of antitrust issues. Throughout the book incorporates important Supreme Court antitrust cases and agency guidelines. The merger section focuses on modern agency practices and merger theories, and selected cases that illustrate them, rather than on outdated Supreme Court cases that no longer describe current merger enforcement.