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Anti-monopoly vs. Antitrust

William Letwin, in Law and Economic Policy in America: The Evolution of the Sherman Antitrust Act, argued that the only way to understand the Sherman Antitrust Act, and by extension antitrust in America, was to understand an ancient strand of American politics: Hatred of monopoly is one of the oldest American political habits and like most profound traditions, it consisted of an essentially perma