The Antitrust Paradox Robert Bork by Robert Bork 9781736089712, 1736089714 instant download after payment.

The most important book on antitrust ever written. It shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses.Since it first appeared in 1978, this seminal work by one of the foremost American legal minds of our age has dramatically changed the way the courts view government's role in private affairs. Now reissued with a new introduction and foreword, this classic shows how antitrust suits adversely affect the consumer by encouraging a costly form of protection for inefficient and uncompetitive small businesses. Robert Bork's view of antitrust law has had a profound impact on how the law has been both interpreted and applied. Lucid, highly readable, and full of rich social and political implications, The Antitrust Paradox illustrates how the purpose and integrity of law can be subverted by those who do not understand the reality law addresses or who seek to make it serve unintended political and social ends.
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"I greatly appreciated my dear friend Bob Bork's The Antitrust Paradox. This seminal book and the ideas within have stood the test of time at the U.S. Supreme Court in case after case, and will continue to do so, because its qualities are the same as Bob's: fearless honesty, truthful observation, penetrating analysis, flashes of wit, and the humility of a genuine intellectual."
-The Honorable Edwin Meese, Counsellor to President Reagan and U.S. Attorney General
"The republication of The Antitrust Paradox couldn't have come at a more critical moment. Judge Bork's masterful explication of Chicago School economics for a legal audience was instrumental in bringing economic logic and rigor to antitrust law in the 1970s, ushering in a sea change in antitrust jurisprudence that has persisted for half a century. Today, many of the wrongheaded ideas that once dominated antitrust are back in the guise of "antitrust populism." Fortunately, this new edition of The Antitrust
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