TY  - BOOK
AU  - Giocoli,Nicola
TI  - Predatory pricing in antitrust law and economics: a historical perspective 
T2  - The economics of legal relationships
SN  - 9780415822527
U1  - 338.523 
PY  - 2014///,
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Predatory pricing
KW  - Antitrust law
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Law
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-304) and index; The economics of predatory pricing -- The two freedoms and British Common Law -- American economists and destructive competition -- Predatory pricing in the formative era of antitrust law -- Predatory pricing in the structuralist era -- The Chicago School and the irrelevance of predation -- Harvard rules : Areeda and Turner's solution -- The demise of predatory pricing as an antitrust violation
N2  - "Can a price ever be too low? Can competition ever be ruinous? Questions like these have always accompanied American antitrust law. They testify to the difficulty of antitrust enforcement, of protecting competition without protecting competitors. As the business practice that most directly raises these kinds of questions, predatory pricing is at the core of antitrust debates. The history of its law and economics offers a privileged standpoint for assessing the broader development of antitrust, its past, present and future. In contrast to existing literature, this book adopts the perspective of the history of economic thought to tell this history, covering a period from the late 1880s to present times.The image of a big firm, such as Rockefeller's Standard Oil or Duke's American Tobacco, crushing its small rivals by underselling them is iconic in American antitrust culture. It is no surprise that the most brilliant legal and economic minds of the last 130 years have been engaged in solving the predatory pricing puzzle. The book shows economic theories that build rigorous stories explaining when predatory pricing may be rational, what welfare harm it may cause, and how the law may fight it. Among these narratives, a special place belongs to the Chicago story, according to which predatory pricing is never profitable and every low price is always a good price.Nicola Giocoli is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pisa, Italy. "--
ER  -