Kathryn M. Fenton

Bio: Kathryn M. Fenton is an academic researcher from Jones Day. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Vertical integration. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 3 publications receiving 7 citations.

Congress and the federal trade commission

Abstract: Upon his nomination in 1973 to chair the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"), Lewis Engman quickly learned that he had a tough act to follow. His two predecessors (Caspar Weinberger and Miles Kirkpatrick) had been credited with reviving a moribund agency, and Engman's confirmation hearings made clear that the Commission's principal legislative overseers expected much more of the same. Welcoming the Chairman-designate on behalf of the Senate Commerce Committee, Senator Frank Moss told Engman that "[u]nder. . . Weinberger and Kirkpatrick, the Commission has taken on new life beginning with the search for strong and imaginative, rigorous developers and enforcers of the law and reaching out with innovative programs to restore competition and to make consumer sovereignty more than chamber of commerce rhetoric."1 Moss noted approvingly that the FTC had "stretched its powers to provide a credible countervailing public force to the enormous economic and political power of huge corporate conglomerates which today dominate Ameri-

The US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee holds hearings on pending resale price maintenance (RPM) federal legislation

Abstract: The enactment of a Maryland state antitrust law prohibiting minimum resale price maintenance (RPM) agreements and U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearings on similar pending…

Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility

Abstract: Governing requires choices, and hence trade-offs between conflicting goals or criteria. This book asserts that legitimate governance requires explanations for such trade-offs and then demonstrates that such explanations can always be found, though not for every possible choice. In so doing, John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn use the tools of social choice theory to provide a new and discriminating theory of legitimacy. In contrast with both earlier critics and defenders of social choice theory, Patty and Penn argue that the classic impossibility theorems of Arrow, Gibbard, and Satterthwaite are inescapably relevant to, and indeed justify, democratic institutions. Specifically, these institutions exist to do more than simply make policy - through their procedures and proceedings, these institutions make sense of the trade-offs required when controversial policy decisions must be made.

Subsistence Exposure Scenarios for Tribal Applications.

Abstract: The article provides an overview of methods that can be used to develop exposure scenarios for unique tribal natural resource usage patterns. Exposure scenarios are used to evaluate the degree of environmental contact experienced by people with different patterns of lifestyle activities, such as residence, recreation, or work. In 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton's Executive Order 12898 recognized that disproportionately high exposures could be incurred by people with traditional subsistence lifestyles because of their more intensive contact with natural resources. Since then, we have developed several tribal exposure scenarios that reflect tribal-specific traditional lifeways. These scenarios are not necessarily intended to capture contemporary resource patterns, but to describe how the resources were used before contamination or degradation, and will be used once again in fully traditional ways after cleanup and restoration. The direct exposure factors for inhalation and soil ingestion rates ar...

The political accountability of EU agencies: learning from the US experience

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Antitrust’s Implementation Blind Side: Challenges to Major Expansion of U.S. Competition Policy:

Abstract: For several years, a number of commentators have expressed concern that the U.S. has a growing market power problem. Further that dysfunction in the U.S. antitrust institutions, and their failure t...

Managed health care: a review of the recent literature and suggestions for future research.

Abstract: The United States health care system has, over the past decade, shifted from an almost exclusively indemnity insurance system to a managed care system. The managed care system is discussed in terms of its causes and major players. Given the importance of health care to the U.S. economy, an examination of the forces in this dynamic market is overdue.