Our friends at Chillin’ Competition have a short interview with Herb Hovenkamp up as part of their “Friday Slot” series. Here are a couple of tidbits to entice you to go read the whole thing:
“Oscar” of the best antitrust law book? Non-antitrust book?
Best Antitrust Book: Oliver E. Williamson, Markets and Hierarchies: Analysis and Antitrust Implications (1975).
Best non-antitrust book: Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America (2001)
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Let’s do it like economists => assume that you could change 3 rules, principles, judgments, institutions in the current EU antitrust system. What would you do?
Answer: I would speak only to the United States system, where I would change the following three things:
A. The per se rule against tying arrangements (insofar as it still exists)
B. The strict recoupment requirement in predatory pricing cases when prices are clearly below average variable cost
C. The federal courts’ repeated refusal to see the competitive harm in reverse payment settlements in pharmaceutical infringement cases
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A piece of “counterfactual” analysis: what would you do if you weren’t in your current position?
I would be either a Dutch Reformed clergyman or a Professor of American History
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Favorite movies?
Sappy chickflicks: The Notebook, Sleepless in Seattle, Titanic