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Antitrust Attacked: A Review of Edwin Rockefeller’s New Book on Antitrust Law<\/h1><\/span>
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By SETH BLOOM <\/h2>
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\n<\/div>\n\n\nEdwin S. Rockefeller, The Antitrust Religion<\/i> (Cato Institute 2007)\n\n\n\n

More than a century after passage of the Sherman Act, one might safely assume that support for the need for antitrust law is nearly universal. Who could disagree with the view that competition is good for consumers, lowers prices, enhances quality, and spurs innovation? Who could disagree that monopolies, price fixing, cartels and other antitrust evils harm consumers, raise prices and depress output, and therefore ought to be banished from the economy?<\/p>

Edwin S. Rockefeller of the Cato Institute, a former head of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law section, most certainly would. Indeed, in “The Antitrust Religion,” Rockefeller attempts to do for antitrust what Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are currently seeking to do to organized religion: argue that it is a foolish invention, a belief system without any basis in empirical truth. <\/p> \n