2006-10-23 05:21:49 · 7 answers · asked by dubkza 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
To keep the marketplace free from improper restraints. Antitrust laws encourage free market competition by making it illegal to engage in anti-competitive behavior such as: tying arrangements, illegal monopolization, price-fixing. The ideology behind these laws is that if restraints are not placed on the market, it benefits the consumer by lowering prices, encouraging the creation of new and improved products, and offering more choice.
2006-10-23 05:38:53 · answer #1 · answered by Tara P 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
imagine if Microsoft as big as it is was allowed to buy and own every other software company in the market place. Than it would have a monopoly and eliminate any competition. That would stifle new ideas and business THUS the reason for anti trust laws...
2006-10-23 05:32:20 · answer #2 · answered by par2972 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Progress through Competition
2006-10-23 08:09:07 · answer #3 · answered by Genuis by Design 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are to keep one company from buying up all of the competition or running them out of business therefore being able to set prices at what ever they want since they have no competition.
2006-10-23 05:27:27 · answer #4 · answered by BUPPY'S MEME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to let a single large company or group of companies working together, to dominate a market, like fixing prices and engage in practices of a monopoly.
2006-10-23 05:26:16 · answer #5 · answered by Catch 22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To keep companies from getting so big that they can manipulate prices by disallowing competition.
2006-10-23 05:25:42 · answer #6 · answered by October 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To keep companies from being able to manipulate the marketplace in their own favor.
2006-10-23 05:29:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋