Innovation Matters by Richard J. Gilbert - ISBN: 9780262545792
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Innovation, not price, is key to competition and economic progress.

Innovation Matters

Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy

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    336 pages

  • Release Date

    7 June 2022

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Summary

A proposal for moving from price-centric to innovation-centric competition policy, reviewing theory and evidence on economic incentives for innovation.

Competition policy and antitrust enforcement have traditionally focused on prices rather than innovation. Economic theory shows the ways that price competition benefits consumers, and courts, antitrust agencies, and economists have developed tools for the quantitative evaluation of price impacts. Antitrust law does not preclude interve…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262545792
ISBN-10:0262545799
Author:Richard J. Gilbert
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:7 June 2022
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Richard J. Gilbert

Richard J. Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division from 1993 to 1995.

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