Winners, Losers & Microsoft

Competition and Antitrust in High Technology

Stan J Liebowitz author Stephen E Margolis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Independent Institute,U.S.

Published:30th Mar '01

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Winners, Losers & Microsoft cover

Few issues in high technology are as divisive as the current debate over competition, innovation, and antitrust. Analyzing famous examples of economic “lock-in” by dominant corporations of supposedly inferior products, this book makes the case that free markets in high technology industry deliver better products to consumers, at lower prices, without government intervention. This publication's careful scholarship, well-founded hypotheses, and refutations of previously accepted theories—extending far beyond the Microsoft case—make this publication a vital piece of understanding for the future of technology and economics.

“Powerful stuff, Winners, Losers & Microsoft promises to have an important impact on the debate about the appropriate use of antitrust in high-technology markets. It does indeed exhibit a very high caliber of scholarship, addresses the key questions posed by the proponents of anti-competitive 'lock-in,' and bases its conclusions on a wealth of new empirical evidence.” —William F. Shughart II, Barnard Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Mississippi

ISBN: 9780945999843

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 480g

302 pages

2nd Revised edition