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Predatory Pricing in Antitrust Law and Economics

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Predatory Pricing in Antitrust Law and Economics

A Historical Perspective
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Can a price ever be too low? Can competition ever be ruinous? Questions like these have always accompanied American antitrust law. They testify to the difficulty of antitrust enforcement, of protecting competition without protecting competitors. As the business practice that most directly raises these kinds of questions, predatory pricing is at the core of antitrust debates. The history of its law and economics offers a privileged standpoint for assessing the broader development of antitrust, its past, present and future. In contrast to existing literature, this book adopts the perspective of the history of economic thought to tell this history, covering a period from the late 1880s to present times. The image of a big firm, such as Rockefeller’s Standard Oil or Duke’s American Tobacco, crushing its small rivals by underselling them is iconic in American antitrust culture. It is no surprise that the most brilliant legal and economic minds of the last 130 years have been engaged in solving the predatory pricing puzzle. The book shows economic theories that build rigorous stories explaining when predatory pricing may be rational, what welfare harm it may cause and how the law may fight it. Among these narratives, a special place belongs to the Chicago story, according to which predatory pricing is never profitable and every low price is always a good price.

Author Biography:

Nicola Giocoli is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy
Release date Australia
January 9th, 2014
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Pages
330
Dimensions
156x234x20
ISBN-13
9780415822527
Product ID
21517737

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