Abolition of Antitrust

by Gary Hull

Overview

Asserts that antitrust laws - on economic, legal, and moral grounds - are bad, and provides evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition. The authors look at some cases as well as the Antitrust Act and conclude that they are based on an erroneous interpretation of the history of American business, premised on bad economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138534001
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/29/2017
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nathan Edmonson, Gary Hull

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One: The Economics of Antitrust
/1. Barriers to Entry
Dominick T. Armentano
/2. The Philosophic Origins of Antitrust
John Ridpath
/3. The False Profi ts of Antitrust
Richard M. Salsman

Part Two: The Legal History of Antitrust
/4. Reversing Course:
/American Attitudes about Monopolies, 1607-1890
Eric Daniels
/5. Antitrust: The War Against Contract
Thomas A. Bowden

Part Three: The Morality of Antitrust
/6. Antitrust: "Free Competition" at Gunpoint
Harry Binswanger
/7. Antitrust is Immoral
Gary Hull

Appendix: Major Antitrust Legislation
Notes on Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"The essays in this book present a sustained economic, historical, moral, and legal broadside against the various federal statutes known as antitrust doctrine. They explode the cherished myths underlying the antitrust laws, and expose their intellectual fountainhead in a morality of self-sacrifice that is incompatible with individual rights, free enterprise, and objective law. With the publication of this text, businessmen, lawyers, economists, policy makers, legislators, and judges finally have access to a systemic critique of the antitrust laws. From here on, if antitrust continues to violate the rights of businessmen and to ravage the American economy, it is not for lack of knowing how and why." —Adam Mossoff, Assistant Professor of Law, Michigan State University

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