Showing papers in "Modern Law Review in 1979"

The Antitrust Paradox. A Policy at War with Itself. By Robert H. Bork. [New York: Basic Books Inc. 1978. xi and 462 pp. (including index). Hardback. £18.00.]

Abstract: comments that the growing demand for income redistri bution through transfer payments is largely a result of, \"the collapse of the idea that market incomes are deter mined by impersonal forces outside of human control.\" Thurow's position is extreme in that he attributes purely self-interested motives to the formulation of public policy. For instance, in speaking of rules and regulations, the author asserts, \"whatever the overt objective, the implicit objective is always to alter the distribution of income and this is almost always the real reason for the existence of any regulation.\" It is on the basis of income distribution interests that environmental policy is determined in Thurow's view, for environmentalists