The Role of Efficiencies in Antitrust Law: Introduction and Overview. (June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gundlach, Gregory T.; Moss, Diana
• Other Names: Gundlach Gregory T. guest-editor.; Moss Diana guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Antitrust bulletin. Volume 60:Number 2(2015)
• Page Start: 91
• Page End: 102
• Publication Date: 2015-06
• Subjects: antitrust -- competition -- consumer welfare -- economic efficiency -- allocative efficiency -- productive efficiency -- dynamic efficiency; Antitrust law -- United States -- Periodicals; Restraint of trade -- United States -- Periodicals; 343.73072105
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X15591991
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-603X

Abstract

An increasing number of antitrust stakeholders have advanced the opinion that enhancing economic efficiency is the most appropriate way to maximize consumer welfare. However, continuing and important questions surround the conclusion that efficiency should be the primary objective and central criterion of competition policy and antitrust law. This two-part special issue of the Antitrust Bulletin examines this debate by focusing on cutting-edge, multidisciplinary thinking, and recent developments concerning economic efficiency and its primacy as an important goal for competition policy and antitrust law.