Editor's Introduction
Abstract
Review of Industrial Organization 12: 301, 1997. 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. The break-up of the AT&T’s Bell System in 1984 was the largest single accom- plishment of U.S. antitrust policy since the Sherman Act was signed in 1890. The case and its results have turned out to be accepted as a conspicuous economic and corporate success, even though there was intense resistance and criticism as the case began and proceeded after 1974. Indeed the AT&T...