The purpose of antitrust law is to promote competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive business practices. Enforcing antitrust rules thus requires an understanding of what constitutes an anticompetitive business practice; an understanding influenced by both legal precedent and broader knowledge of markets, companies, and competition. This Essay traces the influence of two academ…
When an anthropologist, urged on by an attentive publisher, begins to gather together certain of his essays for a kind of retrospective exhibi tion of what he has been doing, or trying to do, over the fifteen-year pe riod since his release from graduate school, he is faced by two tearing decisions: what to include, and how reverently to treat what is included. All of us who write social sci…
Corporate governance is a central and dynamic aspect of business. The term ‘governance’ is derived from the Latin word gubernare, meaning ‘to steer’, usually applying to the steering of a ship, which implies that corporate governance involves the function of direction rather than control