Antitrust and Innovation

(Don Boudreaux)

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As today, economists and legal scholars thirty years ago were focused on the role of antitrust in the high-tech economy. But economists and legal scholars thirty years ago were, compared to too many of their counterparts today, far better informed about history, about the nature of government regulation (including, specifically, about antitrust), and about sound economics.

In a 1993 issue of Public Choice I reviewed an important 1992 volume on antitrust and innovation. This book should be dusted off and read today.

I paste the full text of my review beneath the fold (links added).

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