“Antitrust’s Least Glorious Hour”: The Robinson-Patman Act
探讨了罗伯特·博克及其他法律学者和经济学家对罗宾逊-帕特曼法案的批评，分析了该法案的核心禁令及其竞争影响，并指出其不利禁令已被反垄断机构的善意忽视和最高法院的三项近期判决所削弱。
In The Antitrust Paradox, Robert Bork explored many of antitrust’s misadventures. Specifically, Bork severely criticized the Robinson-Patman Act, which he characterized as “antitrust’s least glorious hour.” In this paper, we explore Bork’s criticism of the Robinson-Patman Act along with those of other legal scholars and economists. We analyze the central prohibitions of the act and explore their competitive implications. We also show that the act’s unfortunate prohibitions have been muted by the antitrust agencies’ benign neglect and three recent Supreme Court decisions.