Antitrust Laws: the IBM and ATamp;T Cases

摘要

The federal antitrust laws of the United States used to enforce competition, to disperse power and benefit consumers have recently achieved a level of prominence in public discussion due to an explosion of antitrust actions and the launching of a campaign on competitiveness by the Reagan administration. The purposes, politics and history of reflect a century of economic growth, oscillating between concentration and fragmentation. As examples of the American policy against monopolies, the IBM and AT & T cases, extraordinary in length, costs and impact, indicate alternative judicial answers enforcing divestiture or accepting internal concentration to emulate international competition.