TY - JOUR AU - Ramos, André Luiz Santa Cruz PY - 2014/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Antitrust:: A Necessary Historic Revision JF - MISES: Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, Law and Economics JA - MisesJournal VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Society, Legislation and Politics DO - 10.30800/mises.2014.v2.601 UR - https://misesjournal.org.br/misesjournal/article/view/601 SP - 223-250 AB - <p>This article is a brief revisionist study about the history of Antitrust Law, in which we try to demonstrate that, in opposition to what the academic mainstream affirms, the antitrust statutes have not been edited to enforce free competition and/or to maximize the consumer welfare, but to protect inefficient firms who could not survive in a genuine free market, where competition was intense and produced extremely beneficial outcomes for the consumers: constant innovation, increase of production, better products/services and lower prices.</p> ER -