antitrust legislation
Competition protection rules
Laws designed to prevent monopolies and promote fair competition in business.
Antitrust legislation restricts practices like price-fixing, market allocation, and corporate mergers that would give one company excessive control over an industry: The merger was blocked under antitrust legislation.
In the U.S., the Sherman Act and Clayton Act form the foundation of antitrust law.
- Clayton ActFederal antitrust statute
- bid riggingConspiring to fix auction outcomes
- price fixingIllegal coordinated rate-setting
- monopolyOne seller, no substitutes
- market powerControl over transaction terms
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Removing governmental business restrictions
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State-group policy collaboration
crony capitalism · market concentration · mercantilism · guild system · planned economy
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