Philosophies
Overviews
AAI: Consumers and the Politics of Antitrust
FTC’s Muris Speech: The Interface of Competition and Consumer Protection
The Libertarian Approach to Antitrust
The Neo-Classical or Chicago School
News, Scholarship on Competing Antitrust Approaches
The Great Antitrust Debate
Arguing that the outcome is critical, this article from BusinessWeekOnline (06/26/00) asks whether antitrust will "Focus on innovation? Or stick to pricing issues?"
Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies?
In this paper from UC Berkeley’s Competition Policy Center (May 1, 2001), Richard Gilbert and Willard K. Tom explore "whether innovation has displaced short-term price effects as the focus of antitrust enforcement by the DOJ and FTC and, to the extent that it has, whether enforcement actions are any different as a result."
Antitrust Policy During the Clinton Administration
In another UC Berkeley’s Competition Policy Center working paper (July 1, 2001), Robert E. Litan and Carl Shapiro explain the more aggressive antitrust enforcement during the Clinton years as resulting from an increased attention to "innovation competition" and intellectual property rights in the New Economy.