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Antitrust

BASIC DOCUMENTS

Services Trade and Growth.
Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank. 
January 2, 2008

The Means to Compete: Benchmarking IT Industry Competitiveness.
By:  Kim Thomas.
Business Software Alliance, Economist Intelligence Unit. 
July 2007.

Antitrust Enforcement and Intellectual Property Rights:  Promoting Innovation and Competition.
U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Federal Trade Commission. April 22, 2007

Competition and Antitrust Law Can Protect The Internet
The Brookings Institute, October 3, 2006

Measuring Competitiveness
By: Peter J. Neary
IMF Working Paper, September 2006

Global Competitiveness Report; 2006-2007
World Wconomic Forum
September 2006

Supreme Court Limits Reach of Antitrust Law Outside U.S. 
June 15, 2004

U.S., EU Approaches to Antitrust Issues -- 17 Years Out 
Speech by Justice Dept.'s R. Hewitt Pate at Brussels conference
June 8, 2004

DOJ Says Cooperation with EU on Antitrust Issues Will Continue

Merger Enforcement in a World of Multiple Arbiters. 
Timothy J. Muris.
December 21, 2001

Competition and Intellectual Property Policy: The Way Ahead
November 15, 2001

International Aviation Alliances: Market Turmoil and the Future of Airline Competition.
November 7, 2001

Commission Law Enforcement and Programmatic Priorities
November 7, 2001

U.S. and Foreign  Antitrust Officials Launch International
Competition Network.
October 25, 2001 

Reconciling  Divergent Enforcement  Polocies: Where Do We Go From Here? 
October 25, 2001

International Antitrust In the 21st Century: Cooperation and Convergence. 
October 17, 2001

International Antitrust In the Bush Administration.
September 21, 2001

Criminal Cartel / Enforcement Status Reports
March 28, 2001

LEGISLATION

Clayton Act (1914)

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

Drug Competition Act of 2001

Promoting Competition, Protecting Consumers

Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition

Sherman Antitrust Act

PUBLICATIONS

BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS

Antitrust. Cato Handbook for Congress/ 105th Cogress

Klein on International Antitrust Policy. April 6, 2000
US Mission to the European Union.
 

ARTICLES

Cyberlaw 2002: the next generation Copyrights, domain disputes, privacy, competition issues and cyber-security will make headlines this year.
The Globe and Mail. January 03, 2002
"The continuing importance of issues such as copyrights and privacy facilitates the task of predicing cyberlaw trends for the year ahead."

The New Trustbusters; Brussels and Washington May Part Ways 
Foreign Affairs, February, 2002 
"During the second half of the twentieth century, many countries opened up their economies to market forces and limited the role of central planning. But even as free markets became the primary way of organizing production, governments also developed "competition policy" to establish the rules of the game."

BOOKS AT THE IRC

Antitrust and the Formation of the Postwar World
New York, NY. Columbia Univ. Press, 2002

Antitrust Laws with Amendments 1890-1974
GPO, 1975

The Antitrust Laws: a premier.
American Enterprise Institute, 1998

Law and Disorder in Cyberspace : abolish the FCC and let common law rule the telecosm.
Huber, Peter.
Oxford University Press, 1997

ELECTRONIC JOURNALS

International  Antitrust and  Competition  Policy. 
Vol. 4, No. 1, February, 1999 
"A Justice Department advisory committee is working hard to recommend 21st century U.S. policy on a number of international antitrust issues: multi-jurisdictional merger reviews, the interface between antitrust and trade policy, and enforcement cooperation."

LINKS

American Antitrust Institute

American Bar Association. Section of Antitrust Law.

Antitrust and Trade Regulations.

Antitrust/Competition. Federal Trade Commission.

Antitrust Division. U.S. Department of Justice.

Competition Online.

FirstGov.

THOMAS. U.S. Congress on the Internet.

U.S. Department of Justice. 

Yahoo Antitrust Law

Last updated November 9, 2005.