Free the Market!: Why Only Government Can Keep the Marketplace CompetitiveWhy we need government intervention in the free market to protect competition and encourage innovation Starting about thirty years ago, conservatives forced an overhaul of competition policy that has loosened business rules for everything from selling products to buying competitors. Gary Reback thinks the changes have gone too far. Today's competition policies, he argues, were made for the old manufacturing economy of the 1970s. But in a high-tech world, these policies actually slow innovation, hurt consumers, and entrench big companies at the expense of entrepreneurs. Free the Market! is both a memoir of Reback's titanic legal battles—involving top companies such as Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, and AT&T—and a persuasive argument for measured government intervention in the free market to foster competition. Among the fascinating questions he considers:
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
PROTECTING COMPETITION | 7 |
Beyond the Robber Barons | 9 |
Chicago Comes to Washington | 33 |
PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION | 49 |
Thinking Different | 51 |
The Price Is Not Right | 73 |
PATENT AND COPYRIGHT ON COMPETITION | 91 |
The Bigger Picture | 172 |
The Ties That Bind | 186 |
Trial of the Century | 207 |
The Right Remedy | 229 |
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS | 253 |
Storytelling for Lawyers | 255 |
Monopolizing the Law | 271 |
A Hostage Taking | 285 |
The Eagle Dared | 93 |
The Allure of the Lotus | 107 |
Trial by Ordeal | 121 |
The Shakedown | 139 |
MONOPOLIES AND MARKET EXCLUSION | 155 |
The Empire Extended | 157 |
The Oracle of Antitrust | 302 |
The Smackdown | 323 |
The Last Mile | 342 |
Conclusion | 366 |
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