商品簡介
In what began as a commissioned research study for the Microsoft Corporation, Epstein (law, U. of Chicago Law School) provides an analysis of the role of consent decrees in US antitrust laws. He provides case studies of the prohibition against entry into new lines of business in Swift & Co. v. United States, the contractual restrictions on and eventual breakup of United Shoe Machinery, and government supervision of the licensing arrangements for musical works--and compares these cases to the breakup of the Bell telephone system and recent litigation involving Microsoft. Epstein concludes that new decrees should be carefully tailored to remedy discreet, identified violations, and that broad "structural" decrees tend to do far more harm than good. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
