There is a widening consensus among jurisdictions with competition
laws that “the basic objective of competition policy is to protect competition
as the most appropriate means of ensuring the efficient allocation
of resources—and thus efficientmarket outcomes—in free market economies.”
1 As this statement indicates, it is efficiency, not competition, that
is the ultimate goal of the antitrust laws. One of the senior economists
of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division put it very well recently:
“efficiency is the goal, competition is the process.”
作者William J. Kolasky（美国司法部工作）