Comments on: The Unconvincing Antitrust Case Against Wal-Mart http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/07/10/the-unconvincing-antitrust-case-against-wal-mart/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:18:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Antitrust Review http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/07/10/the-unconvincing-antitrust-case-against-wal-mart/comment-page-1/#comment-37041 Antitrust Review Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:04:42 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/07/10/the-unconvincing-antitrust-case-against-wal-mart/#comment-37041 <strong>Wal-Mart and Antitrust</strong> Wal-Mart and antitrust has certainly been a hot topic recently.  For example, July Harper’s Magazine had an essay by Barry C. Lynn titled, “Breaking the Chain: The Antitrust Case Against Wal-Mart” and Truth on the Market has had two posts on t... Wal-Mart and Antitrust

Wal-Mart and antitrust has certainly been a hot topic recently.  For example, July Harper’s Magazine had an essay by Barry C. Lynn titled, “Breaking the Chain: The Antitrust Case Against Wal-Mart” and Truth on the Market has had two posts on t…

]]> By: TRUTH ON THE MARKET » Isn’t Competition Grand?: Wal-Mart, Drugs, and Antitrust http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/07/10/the-unconvincing-antitrust-case-against-wal-mart/comment-page-1/#comment-25125 TRUTH ON THE MARKET » Isn’t Competition Grand?: Wal-Mart, Drugs, and Antitrust Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:41:35 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2006/07/10/the-unconvincing-antitrust-case-against-wal-mart/#comment-25125 [...] I have written in this space before about the unconvincing antitrust case against Wal-Mart. This suit against generics appears to fall in the same category as the general lament against competition and low prices appearing in Barry C. Lynn’s essay in Harper Magazine (to which I respond in this post): “Breaking the Chain: The Antitrust Case Against Wal-Mart,” “to defend Wal-Mart for its low prices is to claim that the most perfect form of economic organization more closely resembles the Soviet Union in 1950 than 20th century America. It is to celebrate rationalization to the point of complete irrationality.” [...] [...] I have written in this space before about the unconvincing antitrust case against Wal-Mart. This suit against generics appears to fall in the same category as the general lament against competition and low prices appearing in Barry C. Lynn’s essay in Harper Magazine (to which I respond in this post): “Breaking the Chain: The Antitrust Case Against Wal-Mart,” “to defend Wal-Mart for its low prices is to claim that the most perfect form of economic organization more closely resembles the Soviet Union in 1950 than 20th century America. It is to celebrate rationalization to the point of complete irrationality.” [...]

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