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42 Antitrust Bull. 1 (1997)
Introduction: Antitrust and the Economics of the Public Interest

handle is hein.journals/antibull42 and id is 13 raw text is: The Antitrust Bulletin/Spring 1997 Introduction: antitrust and the economics of the public interest BY ROBERT J. LEVINSON* In empowering the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and prosecute antitrust cases, Congress mandated that Whenever the Commission shall have reason to believe that any... person, partnership, or corporation has been or is using any unfair method of competition . . . in or affecting commerce, and if it shall appear to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof would be to the interest of the public, it shall issue and serve upon such person, partnership, or corporation a complaint stating its charges Law and Commission rulings have, through the years, defined forms of business conduct that are unfair. The volume of antitrust cases brought by the Commission since the promulgation of the FTC Act allows us to infer that the Commission has through the years determined the meaning of the interest of the public. * Economist, Antitrust Division, Bureau of Economics, U.S. Federal Trade Commission. ** Federal Trade Commission Act at § 5 (15 U.S.C. § 45). AUTHOR'S NOTE: All opinions expressed in this article are those of the author alone, and do not represent those of the Commission, any Com- missioner, or any other employee of the Federal Trade Commission. © 1997 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

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