Is Amazon really skirting antitrust law?
In 1890, the Sherman Act was passed. Its purpose was to preserve a competitive marketplace against potential consumer abuses.
But the law isn't supposed to punish "innocent monopoly," or monopoly achieved by merit alone. So the question is: how innocent is Amazon’s monopoly?
Seattle University Law professor and antitrust expert Jack Kirkwood explains.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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