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'''Antitrust laws''' are federal and state statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints, price discriminations, price fixing, and monopolies. [[category:legal terms]]

'''Antitrust laws''' are federal and state statutes to protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints, price discriminations, price fixing, and monopolies. [[Category:Legal Terms]]

Antitrust laws reflect the economic harm caused by a [[monopoly]]. Antitrust laws aim to stop abuses of market power by big companies and, sometimes, to prevent corporate mergers and acquisitions that would create or strengthen a monopolist. There have been big differences in antitrust policies both among countries and within the same country over time. This has reflected different ideas about what constitutes a monopoly and, where there is one, what sorts of behavior are abusive.

Antitrust laws reflect the economic harm caused by a [[monopoly]]. Antitrust laws aim to stop abuses of market power by big companies and, sometimes, to prevent corporate mergers and acquisitions that would create or strengthen a monopolist. There have been big differences in antitrust policies both among countries and within the same country over time. This has reflected different ideas about what constitutes a monopoly and, where there is one, what sorts of behavior are abusive.