Problems of competition have no national boundaries. Under the private enterprise system there is competition among finns. Uncler totalitarian regimes competition appears in the rivalries among bureaucratíc units and among industrial trusts. Under sorne mixed systems competition clevelops among public ancl private entrepreneurial units. Currently, an international "competitive" stmggle derives from the conHict between totalitarian and free-market systems.


While competition exists in various forms in other countries, the United States of America has given more sustained attention to issues of competition and monopoly than auy other nation. Problems of the free market bave influenced pablic policies since the founding of the republic. lssues of monopoly, govemment regulation, govemment economic activity, and free tracle have attracted attention ever since tbe thirteen states decided to confederate. In many different guises, competitive issues permeate most of the affajrs of the body politic. They affect many facets of living patternseconomic, política!, and social. They are intimately Ielated to basic questions conceming the role of government, business, agriculture, and labor.


We, the American people, howeveI, have not appreciated the broad influences of tbese issues on public policy and on oor everyday lives. The narrow word association of competition is with "antitrust." Hence the pervasive influences of Ülese broader issues are not recognized even though tbey are implicit in such diverse features in the recent news as: the Buy-Americau plans for the Development Loan Fund, the congressional investigations of inflation and of administered prices, the Presiclent's appeal to the steel industry to hold the price line, the spectacular attack on prioe-fixing in the electrical equipment industry, and the establishment of a European Common Market.


CONTENTS


FOREWORD


AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


1. PERSPECTIVE AND PLAN


2, BASIC PUBLIC GOALS


3. GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES


4. POLICY FORMULATION


5. LITIGATION AND NEGOTIATION


6. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS


7. INDICATORS OF COMPETITION


8. DEFINING THE MARKET


9. STATISTICAL EVIDENCE


10. SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS


APPENDIX


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