A new school in Chicago

摘要

MONOPOLIES ARE GOOD-so long as they can be challenged, however remote the possibility. That belief has long held sway at the University of Chicago, a bastion of free-market thinking, which helped make the word "antitrust" lose most of its meaning in America, not least with respect to technology. "Punishing Google for being a successful competitor would stifle innovation and dynamic competition," concluded the late Robert Bork, long the Chicago school's leading antitrust expert, in a paper published in 2012 (commissioned by Google, which needed ammunition to defend itself in an antitrust investigation at the time).