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02694cam a2200229 i 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674971424 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
343.0721 |
| Item number |
PAT.A |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Patterson, Mark R., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Antitrust law in the new economy : |
| Remainder of title |
Google, Yelp, LIBOR, and the control of information / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Mark R. Patterson. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Cambridge, |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Harvard University, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vii, 317 pages ; |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-310) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Competition and consumer protection -- The economics of information -- Information and market power -- Agreements on information -- Exclusion by information -- "Confusopoly" and information asymmetries -- Privacy as an information product -- Information and intellectual property -- Restraint of trade and freedom of speech. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Markets run on information. Buyers make decisions by relying on their knowledge of the products available, and sellers decide what to produce based on their understanding of what buyers want. But the distribution of market information has changed, as consumers increasingly turn to sources that act as intermediaries for information--companies like Yelp and Google. Antitrust Law in the New Economy considers a wide range of problems that arise around one aspect of information in the marketplace: its quality. Sellers now have the ability and motivation to distort the truth about their products when they make data available to intermediaries. And intermediaries, in turn, have their own incentives to skew the facts they provide to buyers, both to benefit advertisers and to gain advantages over their competition. Consumer protection law is poorly suited for these problems in the information economy. Antitrust law, designed to regulate powerful firms and prevent collusion among producers, is a better choice. But the current application of antitrust law pays little attention to information quality. Mark Patterson discusses a range of ways in which data can be manipulated for competitive advantage and exploitation of consumers (as happened in the LIBOR scandal), and he considers novel issues like "confusopoly" and sellers' use of consumers' personal information in direct selling. Antitrust law can and should be adapted for the information economy, Patterson argues, and he shows how courts can apply antitrust to address today's problems"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Antitrust law |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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Information services |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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Consumer protection |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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Deceptive advertising |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
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Disclosure of information |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Restraint of trade |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Book |
