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Editor's Introduction

Editor's Introduction 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 monopoly had long been deeply entrenched and was seemingly untouchable. How America’s leading corporate colossus came to be challenged and felled is a major topic in policy history. Understanding how this antitrust triumph could happen against all the odds is a necessary task for everyone interested in U.S. antitrust and deregulation. Now virtually forgotten is the decisive role played by a Federal Communications Commission Task Force during 1972–77. With great talent and effort, this Task Force set about assembling evidence on AT&T’s monopoly-creating behavior in a variety of markets. The Task Force built up a massive set of information, which was comprehensive and technically beyond challenge. That evidence quickly became the essential core of the Antitrust Division’s case against AT&T, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Industrial Organization Springer Journals

Editor's Introduction

Review of Industrial Organization , Volume 12 (3) – Sep 29, 2004

Editor's Introduction

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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...
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Economics; Industrial Organization; Microeconomics
ISSN
0889-938X
eISSN
1573-7160
DOI
10.1023/A:1017197016399
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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 monopoly had long been deeply entrenched and was seemingly untouchable. How America’s leading corporate colossus came to be challenged and felled is a major topic in policy history. Understanding how this antitrust triumph could happen against all the odds is a necessary task for everyone interested in U.S. antitrust and deregulation. Now virtually forgotten is the decisive role played by a Federal Communications Commission Task Force during 1972–77. With great talent and effort, this Task Force set about assembling evidence on AT&T’s monopoly-creating behavior in a variety of markets. The Task Force built up a massive set of information, which was comprehensive and technically beyond challenge. That evidence quickly became the essential core of the Antitrust Division’s case against AT&T,

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Review of Industrial OrganizationSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 29, 2004

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