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2010

University of Connecticut

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Patent Pooling Behind The Veil Of Uncertainty: Antitrust, Competition Policy, And The Vaccine Industry, Hillary Greene Jan 2010

Patent Pooling Behind The Veil Of Uncertainty: Antitrust, Competition Policy, And The Vaccine Industry, Hillary Greene

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Antitrust Censorship Of Economic Protest, Hillary Greene Jan 2010

Antitrust Censorship Of Economic Protest, Hillary Greene

Faculty Articles and Papers

Antitrust law accepts the competitive marketplace, its operation, and its outcomes as an ideal. Society itself need not and does not. Although antitrust is not in the business of evaluating, for example, the “fairness” of prices, society can, and frequently does, properly concern itself with these issues. When dissatisfaction results, it may manifest itself in an expressive boycott: a form of social campaign wherein purchasers express their dissatisfaction by collectively refusing to buy. Antitrust should neither participate in nor censor such normative discourse. In this Article, I explain how antitrust law impedes this speech, argue why it should not, and …