Antitrust

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Antitrust or Competition laws legislate against trade practices which undermine competitiveness or are considered to be unfair. The term antitrust derives from the US law which was originally formulated to combat business trusts - now commonly known as cartels.

Most anti-trust activity can be classified in the following areas:

• Bid rigging
• Monopolization and oligopolization
• Price fixing
• Tying
• Vendor lock-in

Alabama became the first U.S. state to enact an antitrust law on February 23, 1883.

Most free-market countries have an antitrust law of one form or another. The European Union also has its own competition law.

See also

• AFL-NFL Merger
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Commissioner Andrew L. Harris
• Common law
• Corporate Governance
• Corporatism
• Corporatocracy
• Duopoly
• Federal Trade Commission Act
• Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
• History of the United States (1865-1918)
• Limit Price
• List of economics topics
• Microsoft antitrust case
• Monopoly
• Monopsony
• President William McKinley
• President Theodore Roosevelt
• Robinson-Patman Act
• Senator John Sherman
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• State law
• Trust
• Trust-busting
• U.S. Industrial Commission of 1898

External link

• http://www.wa.gov/ago/trust

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