Glen Tenney's Online Resources
Topic: Antitrust, Cartels, and Price Fixing Theory

  
 

A Critique of Neoclassical and Austrian Monopoly Theory

By D. T. Armentano

In this classic article originally written in 1978, Armentano (1) reviews the traditional Neoclassical theory, (2) illustrates the various problems with that theory from the perspectives of Mises, Kirzner, and Rothbard, and (3) provides his own insights on the problem of monopoly theory as it now exists.  (12 pages, 1978, republished in 2005 by the Mises Institute.)

Interest Groups and the Antitrust Paradox

By Bruce Benson, M. L. Greenhut, and Randall Holcombe

16 pages, 1987

The Microsoft Corporation in Collision with Antitrust Law

By William Anderson, Christopher Westley, Ilana Mercer, Walter Block, Thomas DiLorenzo

9 pages, 2001

Public Choice and Antitrust

By Robert Tollison

This link also includes a comment by D. T. Armentano.  (18 pages, 1985)

Efficiency, Liberty, and Antitrust Policy

By D. T. Armentano

This article is a comment on Tollison’s article in the same issue of the Cato Journal. The link is to both article – Armentano’s running directly after Tollison’s in the same file. After showing the impossibility of the standard neoclassical approach to antitrust policy, Armentano’s part includes a short explanation of an alternative neoclassical approach and then puts for a “plan coordination” theory of efficiency that reconciles liberty and efficiency in antitrust policy. (9 pages, 1985)

Competition, Regulation, and the Market Process: An “Austrian” Perspective

By Israel Kirzner

This is a general critique of government regulatory processes that thwart the discovery process inherent in a market economy. Toward the end of the article there is a good explanation of how antitrust type regulatory efforts can do damage to the competitive process.  (10 pages, 1982)

Anti-trust is Anti-competitive

By Ninos Malek

3 pages, 2004

The Irresistable Force of Market Competition

By Israel Kirzner

4 pages, 2000

The Monopoly Nonproblem: Taking Price Discrimination Seriously

By Stephen Shmanske

13 pages, 2006

Path Dependence and Antitrust

By Timothy Terrell

This article is actually a book review of a recent book written by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis. (3 pages, 1999)

Cartels as Efficient Market Structures

By Pascal Salin

13 pages, 1996

Antitrust Violates Rights

By William Anderson

3 pages, 2001

Total Repeal of Antitrust Legislation: A Critique of Bork, Brozen, and Posner

By Walter Block

81 pages, 1994

Austrian Monopoly Theory: A Critique

By Walter Block

9 pages, 1977

The Anatomy of Antitrust

By D. T. Armentano

This piece is a Mises Institute  interview with Armentano regarding his vast research on antitrust policy.  (5 pages, 1998)

 

 

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