Book Review: Restrictive Trade Practices and Mergers

• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X7702200416
• Date: 01 December 1977
• Author: Corwin D. Edwards
• Published date: 01 December 1977
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

Gary K. Widmer, Restrictive Trade Practices and Mergers,

Sydney,

Australia:

Law Book Co., Ltd. (1977), 144 pp.,

$9.50 Australian.

This book is too small to cope with its

variety

of topics.

It

tries to cover the economics of

antitrust,

the development

of the law of

restraint

of

trade

in the English-speaking world,

the content of the Australian law of 1974, merger law in the

United States, the economic criteria of

merger

analysis, sum-

maries of 25 Australian merger decisions, decisions by the

High Court in two cases, pending proposals to amend the

law, and the functions of the various bodies

that

apply the

law. The resulting exposition is too brief, allusive, and epi-

sodic to be useful to a foreign reader

not

well acquainted with

the Australian scene.

CORWIN

D. EDWARDS

Professor

Emeritus

University

of

Oregon

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