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United States v. Apple : Competition in America / Chris Sagers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674243286
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 343.7307/25 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Case Bigger Than It Seemed -- PART I . POLICY AS PROLOGUE -- 1. The Great Generalization -- 2. In the First Ships: Competition as a Concept and Its Special Role in American History -- 3. And Yet, Uncertainty: The Long Shadows of the American Methodenstreit -- 4. Uncertainty of Another Kind: Coping with Capitalism through Association and Self-Help -- 5. Tensions of the Latter Day and Some Unexpected Skepticism -- 6. Competition as a Living Policy, circa 2019 -- PART II. THE EBOOKS CASE -- 7. The Old Business of Books -- 8. Bookselling and the Birth of Amazon -- 9. Publishers, Booksellers, and the Oldest Problem in the World -- 10. Price-Fixing in Books -- 11. Content and the Digital Transition in Historical Context -- 12. The Promise and Threat of Electronic Books -- 13. How Electronic Books Came to Be, and What It Would Mean for the Apple Case -- 14. Google Books -- 15. The Kindle -- 16. The eBooks Conspiracy -- PART III. COMPETITION AND ITS MANY REGRETS -- 17. The Long Agony of Antitrust -- 18. So Are Books, After All, Special? Is Anything? -- 19. The Virtues of Vertical and Entry for Its Own Sake -- 20. Amazon -- 21. The Threat to Writers and the Threat to Cultural Values -- 22. The Creeping Profusion of Externalities -- Conclusion: Real Ironies -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: In 2012, when the Justice Department sued Apple and five book publishers for price fixing, many observers sided with the defendants. It was a reminder that, in practice, Americans are ambivalent about competition. Chris Sagers shows why protecting price competition, even when it hurts some of us, is crucial if antitrust law is to preserve markets.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: A Case Bigger Than It Seemed -- PART I . POLICY AS PROLOGUE -- 1. The Great Generalization -- 2. In the First Ships: Competition as a Concept and Its Special Role in American History -- 3. And Yet, Uncertainty: The Long Shadows of the American Methodenstreit -- 4. Uncertainty of Another Kind: Coping with Capitalism through Association and Self-Help -- 5. Tensions of the Latter Day and Some Unexpected Skepticism -- 6. Competition as a Living Policy, circa 2019 -- PART II. THE EBOOKS CASE -- 7. The Old Business of Books -- 8. Bookselling and the Birth of Amazon -- 9. Publishers, Booksellers, and the Oldest Problem in the World -- 10. Price-Fixing in Books -- 11. Content and the Digital Transition in Historical Context -- 12. The Promise and Threat of Electronic Books -- 13. How Electronic Books Came to Be, and What It Would Mean for the Apple Case -- 14. Google Books -- 15. The Kindle -- 16. The eBooks Conspiracy -- PART III. COMPETITION AND ITS MANY REGRETS -- 17. The Long Agony of Antitrust -- 18. So Are Books, After All, Special? Is Anything? -- 19. The Virtues of Vertical and Entry for Its Own Sake -- 20. Amazon -- 21. The Threat to Writers and the Threat to Cultural Values -- 22. The Creeping Profusion of Externalities -- Conclusion: Real Ironies -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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In 2012, when the Justice Department sued Apple and five book publishers for price fixing, many observers sided with the defendants. It was a reminder that, in practice, Americans are ambivalent about competition. Chris Sagers shows why protecting price competition, even when it hurts some of us, is crucial if antitrust law is to preserve markets.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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