Word: antitrust
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...October, a destitute AIAW formally declared war, filing an antitrust suit against its rival organization. A Federal District Court judge ruled in favor of the NCAA, and in March the AIAW finally conceded defeat and closed up shop...
...well as by the G. Heileman Brewing Co. of La Crosse, Wis., a scrappy firm that has built itself into the fourth largest company in the industry by buying up regional brands. The Pabst bid, though, never went anywhere, and the Justice Department blocked Heileman's acquisition on antitrust grounds...
...Denver, Kansas City, the New York Giants and the Jets-have announced that they are raising ticket prices from an average of $10.50 to as much as $15. In still another effort to add to its considerable success, the N.F.L. is now lobbying in Congress for exemption from the antitrust laws. This would open the way to further expansion. It would also tighten the league's hold over such maverick owners as Al Davis, who is suing the N.F.L. for blocking his plan to move the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles...
...there is a second principle at stake, which Star interprets as "the simplistic belief that 'bigness is badness.' "Agreed: there are those who simply don't like big business and who would freely use the antitrust laws to enact their views, However, a closer look reveals a large, reliable body of scholarship, which demonstrates the adverse consequences of one of a few firms controlling the bulk of a market--irrespective of their conduct. Ironically, for example, some firms in difficult-to-enter markets gain high profits which are unrelated to superior business practices or R&D. The general idea...
...there is also a tradition of rulings on grounds of market control as well as unfair conduct. I wish to emphasize that such a tradition is justified by well-respected research; simplistic notions of "bigness as badness" need not enter into it. Such research further implies that new antitrust legislation could legitimately be based on the notion of market power as distinct from conduct (with adequate previsions for exceptions which are too complex and boring to mention here...