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Antitrust or competition laws are laws which prohibit anti-competitive or unfair business practices. The term "antitrust" derives from the U.S. law which was originally formulated to combat "business trusts", now more commonly known as cartels. Despite the connotations of the word antitrust, not all anticompetitive behavior that is the subject of antitrust laws involve illegal cartels or trusts. A single firm (e.g. a monopoly) can be found to have violated the law if it is shown to have abused its dominant positio ...

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Critics of anti-trust laws claim that there are two kinds of monopolies: Coercive monopolies, or Government-granted monopolies (generally created or sustained by the law) (also called statutory monopolies), and Natural monopolies (arising out of free market conditions). The critics claim that natural monopolies can be seen as economically beneficial. Thomas Woods asserts that the industries most frequently accused of holding a coercive monopoly position in the late nineteenth century were neither restricting output nor raising prices. The Results of "Predatory pr ...

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Antitrust, Antitrust - Prohibited anti-competitive behavior, Antitrust - Consumer protection, Antitrust - History of antitrust laws in the United States, Antitrust - Rationale, Antitrust - Criticism

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Antitrust legislation should benefit consumers through reduced prices, better product diversity, and thus more choice. Furthermore, as the market power of large cartels is reduced, they are forced to pay more attention to the needs and wishes of individual customers. Antitrust laws prohibit agreements in restraint of trade, monopolization and attempted monopolization, anticompetitive mergers and tie-in schemes, and, in some circumstances, price dis ...

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Antitrust, Antitrust - Prohibited anti-competitive behavior, Antitrust - Consumer protection, Antitrust - History of antitrust laws in the United States, Antitrust - Rationale, Antitrust - Criticism

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Critics of anti-trust laws claim that there are two kinds of monopolies: Coercive monopolies, or Government-granted monopolies (generally created or sustained by the law) (also called statutory monopolies), and Natural monopolies (arising out of free market conditions). The critics claim that natural monopolies can be seen as economically beneficial. Thomas Woods asserts that the industries most frequently accused of holding a coercive monopoly position in the late nineteenth century were neither restricting output nor raising prices. The Results of ...

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Antitrust, Antitrust - Divisions, Antitrust - History, Antitrust - Arguments in favor of antitrust laws, Antitrust - Criticisms of antitrust

Read more here: » Antitrust: Encyclopedia II - Antitrust - Criticisms of antitrust

By introducing antitrust legislation, consumers should benefit from reduced prices, better product diversity, and thus more choice. Furthermore, as the market power of large cartels is reduced, they are forced to pay more attention to the needs and wishes of individual customers. Large companies with huge cash reserves and large lines of credit can stifle competition by engaging in predatory pricing; that is, by selling their products and services at a loss for a time, in order to force their smaller competitors out of business. With ...

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Antitrust, Antitrust - Prohibited anti-competitive behavior, Antitrust - Consumer protection, Antitrust - History of antitrust laws in the United States, Antitrust - Rationale, Antitrust - Criticism

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Alabama became the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law on February 23, 1883. The United States federal government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, although it was not put to use for several more years. Several large conglomerates such as the Northern Securities Company, the Standard Oil company, and the American Tobacco Company were found to be illegal trusts, and broken up by the courts. More recently, large American companies AT&T a ...

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Antitrust, Antitrust - Prohibited anti-competitive behavior, Antitrust - Consumer protection, Antitrust - History of antitrust laws in the United States, Antitrust - Rationale, Antitrust - Criticism

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Alabama became the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law on February 23, 1883. The United States federal government passed the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890, although it was not put to use for several more years. Several large conglomerates such as the Northern Securities Company, the Standard Oil company, and the American Tobacco Company were found to be illegal trusts, and broken up by the courts. More recently, large American companies AT&T and Microsoft have been sued by the U.S. ...

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Antitrust, Antitrust - Divisions, Antitrust - History, Antitrust - Arguments in favor of antitrust laws, Antitrust - Criticisms of antitrust

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By introducing antitrust legislation, consumers should benefit from reduced prices, better product diversity, and thus more choice. Furthermore, as the market power of large cartels is reduced, they are forced to pay more attention to the needs and wishes of individual customers. Large companies with huge cash reserves and large lines of credit can stifle competition by engaging in predatory pricing; that is, by selling their products and services at a loss for a time, in order to force their smaller competitors out of business. With ...

See also:

Antitrust, Antitrust - Divisions, Antitrust - History, Antitrust - Arguments in favor of antitrust laws, Antitrust - Criticisms of antitrust

Read more here: » Antitrust: Encyclopedia II - Antitrust - Arguments in favor of antitrust laws