| Preface | |
| Table of Cases | |
| Ch. I | Restraints of Trade at Common Law | 1 |
| A | Contracts in Restraint of Trade | 3 |
| B | Monopoly and Conspiracy | 10 |
| Ch. II | The Antitrust Statutes | 15 |
| A | The Demand for Regulation | 15 |
| B | The Sherman Act | 20 |
| C | The Clayton and Federal Trade Commission Acts | 27 |
| D | Institutional Implications | 30 |
| Ch. III | Antitrust Economics (in a Nutshell) | 42 |
| A | Some Basic Explanations and Behavioral Assumptions | 45 |
| B | Basic Economic Models | 52 |
| C | Current Developments | 82 |
| Ch. IV | The Monopoly Problem | 91 |
| A | Monopoly Power | 94 |
| B | Monopolization: The Uses of Monopoly Power | 120 |
| C | Attempts to Monopolize | 153 |
| Ch. V | Horizontal Restraints: The Evolution of Standards | 156 |
| A | The Economics of Cartels and Transaction Costs | 157 |
| B | Horizontal Agreements and the Structure of Legal Rules: The Relationship Between Per Se Rules and Reasonableness Standards | 165 |
| C | Price-Fixing | 170 |
| D | Market Allocations and Production Controls | 196 |
| E | Boycotts | 204 |
| Ch. VI | Horizontal Restraints: Problems of Proof and Characterization | 223 |
| A | Evidence of an Agreement | 223 |
| B | Problems of Characterization | 239 |
| Ch. VII | The Oligopoly Problem | 266 |
| A | Economists and the Oligopoly Problem | 268 |
| B | Legal Approaches to the Control of Oligopolies | 272 |
| Ch. VIII | Vertical Restraints | 286 |
| A | Transaction Cost Economics and Vertical Relationships | 290 |
| B | Restrictions on Distribution | 292 |
| C | Limits on Supplier Power: Exclusionary Practices | 326 |
| Ch. IX | Mergers | 348 |
| A | Tensions in Modern Merger Analysis | 348 |
| B | Competitive Effects Overview | 353 |
| C | The Sherman Act and Mergers Tending to Monopoly | 360 |
| D | The Enactment and Amendment of Section 7 of the Clayton Act | 363 |
| E | The Supreme Court and Merger Analysis Since 1950 | 366 |
| F | Government Merger Guidelines and Premerger Notification | 394 |
| G | Modern Lower Court Applications | 402 |
| Ch. X | Patent and Intellectual Property Issues | 409 |
| A | An Introduction to Patents | 411 |
| B | Price, Territorial, and Use Restrictions | 415 |
| C | Settlement and Accumulation | 424 |
| D | Enforcement of Patents as an Antitrust Violation | 429 |
| Ch. XI | Price Discrimination and the Robinson-Patman Act | 431 |
| A | The Origin and Enforcement of Section 2 of the Clayton Act | 432 |
| B | The Statute Analyzed | 435 |
| C | Injury to Competition | 438 |
| D | Defenses | 444 |
| Ch. XII | The Enforcement and Adjudication Process | 449 |
| A | Public Enforcement | 449 |
| B | Private Enforcement | 461 |
| C | Federal Judiciary | 468 |
| Ch. XIII | Limits on the Scope of the Antitrust System | 473 |
| A | Jurisdictional Restrictions | 473 |
| B | The Effect of Government Intervention | 480 |
| Ch. XIV | The Changing Balance in Antitrust | 497 |
| App.: Sherman Act | 506 |
| App.: Clayton Act | 507 |
| App.: Federal Trade Commission Act | 510 |
| Index | 511 |