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Antitrust Reference library
The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Antitrust law consists of a body of statutes, judicial decisions, and enforcement activities designed to check business activities that pose
Antitrust Reference library
James May
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States (2 ed.)
Antitrust law consists of a body of statutes, judicial decisions, and enforcement activities designed to check business activities posing a
antitrust Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
This is the American term for competition law. The basic provision of US antitrust is the Sherman Act of
Antitrust Reference library
Tony A. Freyer
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Antitrust theory and policy occupies a distinctive place in economic history. Since the first Industrial Revolution originated in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, the owners of ...
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Antitrust Law Reference library
The Oxford Companion to American Law
consists of a body of statutes, judicial decisions, and enforcement activities designed to check business activities posing a threat to
antitrust laws Reference library
The Handbook of International Financial Terms
Generally those national laws designed to prevent the creation and operation of monopolies and restraint of trade.
Antitrust Legislation. Reference library
Tony A. Freyer
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Opposition to concentrated corporate power occupies a noteworthy if ambiguous place in American history. Ever since Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act of ...
AT&T Litigation
Was a federal antitrust case that produced the historic 1982 consent decree known as the “MFJ” (Modified Final Judgment), which broke up the Bell System. Before the MFJ, “Ma Bell”—the ...
Bates v. State Bar of Arizona
433 U.S. 350 (1977), argued 18 Jan. 1977, decided 27 June 1977 by vote of 5 to 4; Blackmun for the Court; Burger, Powell, and Rehnquist in dissent. In Bates the Supreme Court struck down state legal ...
Bill Gates
1955– )US computer entrepreneur, who became the richest man in the world.Born in Seattle, Washington, Gates was educated at Harvard. His career in computers began when he founded Microsoft at the age ...
business
1 All forms of industrial and commercial profit-seeking activity. The business cycle refers to fluctuations in the aggregate level of economic activity, and the Business Expansion Scheme in the UK ...
business cycle
Observed changes to economic conditions which move from prosperity through recession to depression and hence back to recovery and further prosperity. Also known as the economic cycle. See, for ...
business Organizations
A business organization is the legal structure under which a business entity organizes itself and conducts its legal affairs. Historically, business firms consisted of three types: the sole ...
capitalism
An economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned and individual owners of capital are free to make use of it as they see fit; in particular, for their own profit. In this ...
Chicago School
The collective name for the economists affiliated with the University of Chicago in the 1970s who believed in self-interest as the explanation of all economic actions, the merits of free markets, the ...
class action
A legal action in which a person sues as a representative of a class of persons who share a common claim.
Clayton Act
US antitrust legislation passed in 1914; it placed restrictions on mergers and acquisitions that limited competition and debarred individuals from holding directorships on the boards of competing ...
Commercial Law
The areas of the legal system governing commerce, including (but not limited to) agency, contracts, company law, business entities and partnerships, insolvency, insurance, intellectual property, ...
competition law
The branch of law concerned with the regulation of anticompetitive practices, restrictive trade practices, and abuses of a dominant position or market power. Such laws prohibit cartels and other ...
competition policy
Government policy to encourage competition. This may be concerned with the structure of industries, or with the behaviour of firms within them. As regards the structure of industries, governments ...
