The FTC at 100: The Impact of Globalization and Technology

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Christopher Yoo, May 13, 2014

The issues in antitrust law have long had a timeless quality. Although the legal doctrine and the economic theory underlying them have changed over time, the fundamental issues of cartels, vertical exclusion, market definition, oligopoly pricing, and monopolization that were the focus of antitrust policy when the Federal Trade Commissions was first created continued to be the central focus of the agen