Book Reviews

• Date: 01 December 1973
• Author: Thomas J. Maroney
• Published date: 01 December 1973
• DOI: 10.1177/0003603X7301800414
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

BOOK

REVIEWS

889

Michael A. Duggan,

Antitrust

and the U.S. Supreme Court

1829-1971,

New York: Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

(1972),303 pp., $12.50.

The traditional rhyme states

that

on

her

wedding

day

the

bride should wear "Something old, something new, something

borrowed, something blue" and

carry"

A lucky sixpence in

her

shoe." The first four elements of the rhyme also accurately

summarize the

nature

and content of the book under review.

Between its blue covers lies a novel arrangement by a skillful

compiler of the old and the borrowed. The remaining ele-

ments-luck

and a

sixpence-are

irrelevant. Neither will take

one

very

far

in the field of antitrust.

The scope of the volume is suggested by its subtitle.

It

is

"A

Compendium of Supreme Court Decisions Dealing

With

Restraint

of

Trade

and

Monopoly-Including

All Cases

Decided Under the

Federal

Antitrust

Laws-And

Supple-

mentary

Material." The book is one

part

legal research

tool and one

part

mini-primer on law and economics; it can

be used for doing introductory case research

and

for

ac-

quiring arudimentary understanding of key legal and eco-

nomic terms

and

concepts.

The research materials comprise much the

greater

portion

of the volume and consist

of:

1. the texts of the key provisions of the federal anti-

trust

laws;

2. abstracts of all opinions of the United

States

Su-

preme Court relating to

antitrust

through April 1972

(there is a pocket

part

for

supplementation);

3. three topical indices to the abstracted cases; and

4. an alphabetical table of cases.

The abstracts, many of which have been published pre-

viously,' include

not

just

cases decided under the

antitrust

1Many of the abstracts for decisions from

1873-1949

were origi-

nally compiled by Lee Loevinger for his treatise

Law

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