Antitrust after Microsoft : The Obsolescence of Antitrust in the Digital Era - Softcover

Kopel, David B.

9780963202758: Antitrust after Microsoft : The Obsolescence of Antitrust in the Digital Era

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0963202758 ISBN 13: 9780963202758

Publisher: Heartland Inst, 2001

Kopel (a researcher for the Heartland Institute) draws lessons from the Microsoft case and applies them to anti-trust laws on the whole. He describes the impact of emerging technologies, the shifts created by new competitors, the details of the Microsoft case, and its relationship to business practices and politics. His argument is deeply suspicious of government regulation of business, especially the regulation of communication technology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author:

David B. Kopel is a senior fellow and director of the Center on the Digital Economy at The Heartland Institute. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, Research Director for the Golden, Colorado-based Independence Institute, and an Associate Policy Analyst with the Cato Institute.

Mr. Kopel graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, and received a B.A. with Honors in History from Brown University. He served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Colorado, representing state agencies in the enforcement of hazardous waste laws, solid waste laws, Superfund, and other environmental laws. He also served as an Assistant District Attorney in New York City.

Mr. Kopel has written eight books, the latest being Antitrust After Microsoft: The Obsolescence of Antitrust in the Digital Era (The Heartland Institute: 2001). He has written dozens of articles in scholarly journals, and hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles. He has appeared on Nightline, McNeil-Lehrer, and many other programs, and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, and many other publications.

Mr. Kopel’s interests and writings are wide-ranging, and include constitutional law, property rights, second and fifth amendments, environmental regulation, and e-commerce. He has written on encryption, CALEA (Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act), Internet access, and the Microsoft antitrust case. In his capacity as Research Director for a state level think tank since 1992, he has solicited, edited, and promoted scores of studies on a wide range of public policy issues.

As Director of Heartland’s Center on the Digital Economy, Mr. Kopel oversees production of policy studies, feature articles, and opinion editorials on issues pertaining to the role and effects of government in the emerging digital economy. He is The Heartland Institute’s principal spokesperson on these issues to the media and at events.

Review:

...Kopel convincingly shows how the changing world makes antitrust policies obsolete and exposes the myths surrounding the persecution of Microsoft. -- Brian S. Wesbury, Griffin, Kubik, Stephens & Thompson, Inc., January 2001

Antitrust after Microsoft shows how dangerous it is to ignore the differences between modes of competition. -- Sam Peltzman Ph.D., University of Chicago, January 2001

David Kopel brilliantly and concisely makes the case for putting consumers first by burying antitrust . -- Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, January 2001

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