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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University
Antitrust

Web-Based Issues Questions

Question 38.1

Click on this article

http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/wrongnumber.html

Comment on the author’s concern that mergers in telecommunications violate anti-trust laws. Do you share the concern or would three strong companies competing with one another for the long-distance market be sufficient to keep prices low? What about the “internet backbone” concern?

Question 38.2

Click on this site

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec99/microsoft_index.html

Peruse this PBS site and create a timeline of the twists and turns in the story. Did the original Judge get it right? Was he too harsh? Too lenient? 





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