MONSANTO AND MERGERS: HOW ANTITRUST GOT BORKED AND HOW COURTS CAN TAKE ITBACK

摘要

Americans in both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street movements marched in the streets against the bailouts of banks and automakers during the Great Recession. Americans rallied against the notion that companies were becoming "too big to fail." The government took only minor actions to prevent these market failures from occurring once more. Little prevented the "too big to fail" financial institutions from continuing to grow their market shares.= Regulation did little to prevent the big banks from getting bigger.' This increase inconsolidation is not limited to financial institutions and automakers. Agribusiness is dominated by only a handful of large, global firms.- Of the "Big Six" agricultural chemical companies, only one has not or is not planning to merge with another company; four of the six largest companies—Dow Chemical, DuPont, Bayer, and Monsanto—have either merged or are planning to merge with one another while the other, Syngenta, plans to merge with another large company in a similar industry.' The government implemented additional regulation on financial institutions after the crash; the government failed to act in response to increased consolidation in these firms.