A Democratic Vision for Antitrust.

ANTITRUST law; BUSINESS enterprises; RETAIL franchises; COVID-19 pandemic; UNITED States. Federal Trade Commission

The article discusses the antitrust law. Topics include competition law and policy have been dominated by the neoclassical law and economics paradigm; conventionally organized business firms are a mean to have a coordinated economic activity; and antitrust laws help franchising business arrangement in its acceptance of vertical domination and in its prohibition of horizontal coordination.