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Competition and consumer protection: the US experience
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Consumer Policy Review
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September 1, 2004
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Copyright informationCopyright Association for Consumers Research Sep/Oct 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Spencer Weber Waller, discusses the link between consumer protection and competition legislation and enforcement in the United States
ABSTRACT
Based on a speech given to the summit conference of European competition and consumer protection officials in Brussels, Professor Waller, of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies, discusses the relationship between competition and consumer protection law from the United States perspective. He demonstrates how this relationship is particularly complicated in the US, both theoretically and in terms of how the laws are actually enforced.
My thesis is a simple one. Consumer protection and competition laws are intimately related two sides of the ...