Description: Preface 1: Introduction and Overview Fred S. McChesney, William F. Shughart II. 2: Public-Choice Theory and Antitrust Policy William F. Shughart II Pt. 1: In Search of the Public-Interest Model of Antitrust Fred S. McChesney 3: What Do Economists Think about Antitrust?: A Random Walk down Pennsylvania Avenue Paul H. Rubin 4: The Economic Effects of the Antitrust Laws (1966) George J. Stigler 5: A Statistical Study of Antitrust Enforcement (1970) Richard A. Posner 6: The Economic Determinants of Antitrust Activity (1973) William F. Long, Richard Schramm, Robert D. Tollison. 7: Is Collusion Profitable? (1976) Peter Asch, Joseph J. Seneca. Pt. 2: The Positive Economics of Antitrust Enforcement Bruce Yandle 8: Did Antitrust Policy Cause the Great Merger Wave? (1985) George Bittlingmayer 9: Antimerger Policy under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act: A Reexamination of the Market-Power Hypothesis (1985) B. Espen Eckbo, Peggy Wier. 10: The Employment Consequences of the Sherman and Clayton Acts (1991) William F. Shughart II, Robert D. Tollison. 11: Antitrust Enforcement and Foreign Competition William F. Shughart II, Jon Silverman, Robert D. Tollison. Pt. 3: The Public-Choice Model of Antitrust Louis De Alessi 12: Antitrust Pork Barrel (1982) Roger L. Faith, Donald R. Leavens, Robert D. Tollison. 13: Bureaucracy and Politics in FTC Merger Challenges (1990) Malcolm B. Coate, Richard S. Higgins, Fred S. McChesney. 14: Monopolies and Mergers Commission, Merger Reports, and the Public Interest: A Probit Analysis (1992) Charlie Weir Pt. 4: Public Choice and the Origins of Antitrust William E. Kovacic 15: Antitrust before the Sherman Act Donald J. Boudreaux, Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Stephen Parker. 16: Business Restraints and the Clayton Act of 1914: Public- or Private-Interest Legislation? Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Michael J. McDonald, Robert D. Tollison. 17: Output and Stock Prices When Antitrust Is Suspended: The Effects of the NIRA George Bittlingmayer Pt. 5: Retrospect and Prospect William F. Shughart II 18: Be True to Your School: Chicago's Contradictory Views of Antitrust and Regulation (1991) Fred S. McChesney 19: The Unjoined Debate Fred S. McChesney, William F. Shughart II. Selected Bibliography List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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