For example, you state that the goal of antitrust is consumer welfare.
Sunday shopping has its main argument in the consumer welfare.
And Google and its lobbyists don't have the slightest interest in consumer welfare.
You also again neglect that Google's bottom line and consumer welfare may very well be in line.
Yet he questioned what weight might be given to privacy, consumer welfare and choice, when those conflict with Microsoft's business strategy.
Such mergers are designed to improve corporate, not consumer welfare.
It is used to control businesses who attempt to use their economic influence to distort market prices at the expense of consumer welfare.
But this improvement in consumer welfare has tended to go unmeasured.
In a society that once had shortages, a fall in real income is not a fair measure of consumer welfare, he says.
Lange also admitted that arbitrary investment would come at the expense of consumer welfare.