Financial Regulation · Regulation
Antitrust
Competition law from the Sherman Act to Big Tech: cartels and monopolization, merger review and the HHI, landmark cases (Standard Oil, AT&T, Microsoft, Google), the consumer-welfare debate, and Europe's Digital Markets Act.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Market structure; Moats. Next: Crypto regulation. Sources: Sherman Act (1890); Clayton Act and FTC Act (1914); DOJ/FTC Merger Guidelines (2023); *United States v. Google* (D.D.C., Aug 2024).Next: 1. The laws