The Microsoft Antitrust Cases: Competition Policy for the Twenty-first Century - Hardcover

Gavil, Andrew I.; First, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262027763 ISBN 13: 9780262027762

Verlag: MIT Press, 2014

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...the book is important and valuable for those interested in the economics of antitrust enforcement in high-technology industries. (...) The authors have it right when they claim that the actions of Microsoft brought to the public's eye some of the most advanced doctrinal, economic, and institutional facets of modern antitrust enforcement. The book is uniquely successful in bringing all of those issues to our attention. * Journal of Economic Literature * This insightful analysis is both an excellent introduction to the complexities of antitrust law and a thoughtful discussion of the ideological disagreements involving competition policy. The concluding chapter, addressing lessons from the Microsoft cases, is especially compelling. * Choice *

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A comprehensive account of the decades-long, multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the digital age. For more than two decades, the U.S. Department of Justice, various states, the European Commission, and many private litigants pursued antitrust actions against the tech giant Microsoft. In investigating and prosecuting Microsoft, federal and state prosecutors were playing their traditional role of reining in a corporate power intent on eliminating competition. Seen from another perspective, however, the government's prosecution of Microsoft-in which it deployed the century-old Sherman Antitrust Act in the volatile and evolving global business environment of the digital era-was unprecedented. In this book, two experts on competition policy offer a comprehensive account of the multiple antitrust actions against Microsoft-from beginning to end-and an assessment of the effectiveness of antitrust law in the twenty-first century. Gavil and First describe in detail the cases that the Department of Justice and the states initiated in 1998, accusing Microsoft of obstructing browser competition and perpetuating its Windows monopoly. They cover the private litigation that followed, and the European Commission cases decided in 2004 and 2009. They also consider broader issues of competition policy in the age of globalization, addressing the adequacy of today's antitrust laws, their enforcement by multiple parties around the world, and the difficulty of obtaining effective remedies-all lessons learned from the Microsoft cases.

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• Verlag: MIT Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0262027763
• ISBN 13: 9780262027762
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 460