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When Economics Met Antitrust: The Second Chicago School and the Economization of Antitrust Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2015

PATRICE BOUGETTE
Affiliation:
Patrice Bougetteis an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis. He is a member of the CNRS Law, Economics, and Management Research Group (GREDEG) and also a LAMETA Research Associate. Contact information: GREDEG CNRS, 250 rue Albert Einstein, 06560 Valbonne, France. Phone: +33 493 954 105, Fax: +33 493 653 798. E-mail: patrice.bougette@gredeg.cnrs.fr.
MARC DESCHAMPS
Affiliation:
Marc Deschampsis a post-doctoral research fellow in economics. He is a University of Lorraine, BETA and GREDEG CNRS Associate. E-mail: marc.deschamps@univ-lorraine.fr.
FRÉDÉRIC MARTY
Affiliation:
Frédéric Martyis a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at GREDEG and Research Associate at Sciences-Po OFCE. E-mail: frederic.marty@gredeg.cnrs.fr.

Abstract

In this article, the authors interrogate legal and economic history to analyze the process by which the Chicago School of Antitrust emerged in the 1950s and became dominant in the United States. They show that the extent to which economic objectives and theoretical views shaped the inception of antitrust law. After establishing the minor influence of economics in the promulgation of U.S. competition law, they highlight U.S. economists’ caution toward antitrust until the Second New Deal and analyze the process by which the Chicago School developed a general and coherent framework for competition policy. They rely mainly on the seminal and programmatic work of Director and Levi (1956) and trace how this theoretical paradigm became collective—that is, the “economization” process in U.S. antitrust. Finally, the authors discuss the implications and possible pitfalls of such a conversion to economics-led antitrust enforcement.

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