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Table of Contents
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Section |
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Section 1:
Key Acts, Cases, and Concepts in American Antitrust History |
2 |
| Section 2: Concepts in
Industrial Organization: Price Discrimination |
6 |
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Section 3: The
Competitive Effects of Price Discrimination |
10 |
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Section 4:
The Robinson-Patman Act and Cases Regarding Price Discrimination in the
United States |
11 |
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Section 5:
Concepts in Industrial Organization: Tying Agreements and Antitrust
Cases Regarding Them |
14 |
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Section 6:
Concepts in Industrial Organization: Exclusive Dealing Agreements and
Resale Price Maintenance Agreements |
16 |
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Section 7:
Price Exchange Agreements and Conscious Parallelism |
18 |
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Section 8:
Historical American Antitrust Policy Regarding Horizontal Mergers: The
Brown Shoe Case and the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act |
19 |
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Section 9:
The Antitrust Cases Against Microsoft (1990 - 2001) and Arguments for
the Legitimacy of Microsoft's Conduct |
20 |
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Section 10:
Dominick T. Armentano's Arguments for the Repeal of All Antitrust Laws |
24 |
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Section 11:
Dominick T. Armentano's Arguments for the Repeal of All Antitrust Laws:
Part II |
26 |
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Section 12:
Dominick T. Armentano's Arguments for the Repeal of All Antitrust Laws:
Part III |
29 |
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Section 13:
Dominick T. Armentano's Arguments for the Repeal of All Antitrust Laws:
Part IV |
32 |
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Section 14:
Dominick T. Armentano's Arguments for the Repeal of All Antitrust Laws:
Part V |
35 |
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About Mr.
Stolyarov |
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