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I reside in Indian River County, Florida, where jury duty is mandated by statute, as in most states. This means that the courts in the County are authorized to “summon” specific individuals for service in civil and criminal proceedings as jurors. A failure to respond to the jury duty summons will be considered a “contempt of court”; and a fine not

Dominick Armentano, author of Antitrust and Monopoly: Anatomy of a Policy Failure , is a leading antitrust theorist of the Austrian School. His main theoretical and political arguments are beautifully summarized in the newly issued Antitrust: The Case for Repeal . This new edition addresses the main antitrust controversies of our time,

The recent “findings of fact” and ruling by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson that Microsoft violated antitrust laws is a travesty of economic reasoning and common sense justice. Jackson accepted the bulk of the government’s argument that Microsoft was a monopoly in the relevant market and that they engaged in “anti-competitive” practices to enhance

Joel Klein, Assistant Attorney General and round-one winner over Microsoft, is certainly puffed up these days and quite carried away with himself. He recently told a London gathering of the American Bar Association faithful that antitrust regulation is now, get this, the only “legitimate form of government intervention.” Oh, really? Klein also