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Where can I find a list of law cases that prove anti-trust is anti-competition?

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Kenneth posted on Mon, Aug 9 2010 6:05 AM

I guess what I want is empirical evidence or the 'argument from effect'. I've read somewhere that most anti-trust suits are filed by fascist corporations/big business. It makes sense from the standpoint of 'regulatory capture'(This is Chicago, I don't know the Austrian argument though) theory but I don't have the evidence.

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I'm not sure if there is an actual list somewhere (anyone knows of one or willing to make one?), but checking the posts on Mises.org blog will yield quite a few examples - look especially on Kinsella's posts and e.g. from Jeffrey Tucker.

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Gipper replied on Mon, Aug 9 2010 10:38 AM

Read the Supreme Courts decision in U.S. v. EC Knight Company in 1895. I had a list of cases, but I can't find my old Constitutional Law syllabus.

 

Also check DiLorenzo in the archives of the "Myth of the Monopoly" or something like that.

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This might be of some help.

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http://voluntaryistreader.wordpress.com
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Check Dominick Armentano's Anti-Trust & Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure.

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Wibee replied on Mon, Aug 9 2010 7:53 PM

Is this in regards to the Intel anti-trust?  

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The fact that it couldn't possibly do anything to improve competition is the evidence.  If it isn't helping, it's harming.

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