In the United States, monopoly policy has been built on the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. This prohibited contracts or conspiracies to restrain trade or, in the words of the later Clayton act, to monopolize commerce. The claim that a company should be broken up is clearly not a new concept in America. In the early 20th century this law was called upon to reduce the economic power wielded by so-called "robber barons," such as JP …
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…of "The Microsoft Problem": Antitrust or Copyright? By Richard B. McKenzie www.gsm.uci.edu/~mckenzie/MicroProb.pdf 5.<Tab/>Litigation: The Price of doing Business in the New Economy Information Week, October 9, 2000 by Aaron Ricadela http://www.informationweek.com/807/govdoj.htm 6.<Tab/>Hard Drive on Microsoft The Nation, December 8, 1997 by Andrew Shapiro <Tab/>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/shapiro/hd_microsoft.html