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
Chicago Comes to Washington | |
Thinking Different | |
The Price Is Not Right | |
The Eagle Dared | |
The Allure of the Lotus | |
Trial by Ordeal | |
The Shakedown | |
PART FIVE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS | |
Storytelling for Lawyers | |
CHAPTER 15 Monopolizing the | |
A Hostage Taking | |
The Oracle of Antitrust | |
The Smackdown | |
The Last Mile | |
Conclusion | |
The Empire Extended | |
The Bigger Picture | |
The Ties That Bind | |
Trial of the Century | |
The Right Remedy | |
Acknowledgements Notes | |
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