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Punishment-Park56.jpg' alt='Watch Punishment Park Online Ibtimes' title='Watch Punishment Park Online Ibtimes' />Elements of the firms structure and conduct pose anticompetitive. This. Note argues that the current framework in antitrustspecifically its pegging competition to consumer welfare, defined as. We cannot cognize the potential harms to. Amazons dominance if we measure competition primarily. Specifically, current doctrine underappreciates the. These concerns are heightened in the context of. First, the economics of platform markets create. Under these conditions, predatory pricing becomes. Second, because online platforms serve as critical intermediaries. This dual role also. This. Note maps out facets of Amazons dominance. Doing so enables us to make sense. Amazons. structure and conduct, and underscores deficiencies in current doctrine. The. Note closes by considering two potential regimes for addressing Amazons power. I am deeply grateful to David Singh. Grewal for encouraging me to pursue this project and to Barry C. Lynn for introducing. For thoughtful feedback at various. I am also grateful to Christopher R. Leslie, Daniel Markovits, Stacy Mitchell, Frank Pasquale, George Priest. Maurice Stucke, and Sandeep Vaheesan. Lastly, many thanks to Juliana Brint, Urja Mittal, and the Yale. Law Journal staff for insightful comments and careful editing. All errors. are my own. IntroductionEven. Amazon became one of the largest retailers in the country, it never seemed. Customers celebrated and the. The New. York Times. One of Mr. Rockefellers most impressive. Ida Tarbell. A History of the Standard Oil Company. In Amazons early years, a running joke among Wall Street. CEO Jeff Bezos was building a house of cards. Entering its. sixth year in 2. Nevertheless, a segment of shareholders. Amazon was. making a sound investment that would yield returns once e commerce took off. Each quarter the company would report losses, and its stock price would rise. One news site captured the split sentiment by asking, Amazon Ponzi Scheme or Wal Mart of the Web3. Sixteen years on, nobody seriously doubts that Amazon is. In 2. 01. 5, it earned 1. By some estimates, Amazon. In addition to being a retailer, it. Although Amazon has clocked. The company. listed consistent losses for the first seven years it was in business, with. While it exits the red more regularly now,8 negative returns are still. The company reported losses in two of the last five years, for example. Despite the companys history of thin returns, investors have. Amazons shares trade at over 9. Standard amp. Poors 5. As one reporter marveled, The company barely ekes out a profit, spends a fortune on. Yet investors. Another commented that. Amazon is in a class of its own when it comes to valuation. Reporters and financial analysts continue to speculate about. Amazons deep investments and steep losses will pay off. Customers, meanwhile, universally. Close to half of all online buyers go directly to. Amazon first to search for products,1. Reputation. Institute named the firm the most reputable company in America for the third. In recent years. journalists have exposed the aggressive business tactics Amazon employs. For. instance Amazon named one campaign The Gazelle Project, a strategy whereby. Amazon would approach small publishers the way a cheetah would a sickly. This, as well as other reporting,1. Amazons dominance. The firms. highly public dispute with Hachette in 2. Amazon delisted the. More generally, there is. Amazon has established itself as an essential. But when pressed on why. Trying to make. sense of the contradiction, one journalist noted that the critics argument. Amazons activities tend to reduce book prices, which is considered good for consumers, they. In some ways, the story of Amazons sustained and growing. Due to a change. in legal thinking and practice in the 1. By this. measure, Amazon has excelled it has evaded government scrutiny in part through. Amazons closest encounter with antitrust authorities was when the. Justice Department sued other companies for teaming up against Amazon. It is as if Bezos charted. With its missionary zeal for. Amazon has marched toward monopoly by singing the tune of contemporary. This Note maps out facets of Amazons power. In particular. it traces the sources of Amazons growth and analyzes the potential effects of. Doing so enables us to make sense of the companys business strategy. This. analysis reveals that the current framework in antitrustspecifically its. In other. words, the potential harms to competition posed by Amazons dominance are not. Focusing. on these metrics instead blinds us to the potential hazards. My argument is that gauging real competition in the. Rather than pegging competition to a narrow set of outcomes, this approach. Animating this framework is the. Applying this idea involves, for. This is the approach I adopt in this Note. I begin by. exploringand challengingmodern antitrust laws treatment of market structure. Part I gives an overview of the shift in antitrust away from economic. Part II questions this narrow focus on consumer welfare as largely. The Note then uses the lens of market structure to. Amazons strategy and conduct. Part III. documents Amazons history of aggressive investing and loss leading, its. Part IV. identifies two instances in which Amazon has built elements of its business. Amazons activity across multiple business lines poses anticompetitive threats. The Note then assesses. Amazon. Part V considers what capital markets suggest about the economics of. Amazon and other internet platforms. Part VI offers two approaches for. I. the chicago school revolution the shift away from competitive process and market structure. One of the most significant changes in antitrust law and. In this Part, I trace this history by sketching out how a structure based. Broadly, economic structuralism rests on the idea that. This view holds that a. This is because 1 monopolistic and oligopolistic market structures. This market structure based understanding of competition was. Subscribing to. this view, courts blocked mergers that they determined would lead to anticompetitive. In some instances, this meant halting horizontal. In others, it involved. Centrally, this approach. The Chicago School approach to antitrust, which gained. In the words of Richard. Posner, the essence of the Chicago School position is that the proper lens for. Foundational to this view is a faith. The Chicago. School approach bases its vision of industrial organization on a simple. Rational economic actors. A failure to act in this fashion will be. While economic structuralists. Chicago School presumes that. In other words, economic structuralists take industry structure as an entryway for. Chicago School holds that industry. For the Chicago School, what exists. Practically, the shift from structuralism to price theory had. First, it led to a significant. An entry barrier is a cost that. According to the Chicago School, advantages. With so many entry barriers. On this view, market power is always fleetingand hence antitrust enforcement. The second consequence of the shift away from structuralism. In his highly influential work, The. Antitrust Paradox, Robert Bork asserted that the sole normative objective. Although Bork used consumer. In 1. 97. 9, the. Supreme Court followed Borks work and declared that Congress designed the. Sherman Act as a consumer welfare prescription3. Still, this philosophy. The 1. 98. 2 merger guidelines issued by. Reagan Administrationa radical departure from the previous guidelines. While the 1. 96. 8 guidelines had. Today, showing antitrust injury. It is true that antitrust authorities do not ignore non price. The 2. 01. 0 Horizontal Merger Guidelines, for example. Notably, the Obama Administrations. Duck Dynasty Wikipedia. Duck Dynasty. The Robertsons, from left Miss Kay, Phil, Willie, Si, Jase, and Korie. Genre. Reality television. Developed by. A E Networks. Starring. Narrated by. Willie Robertson. Theme music composer. ZZ Top. Opening themeSharp Dressed Man seasons 16Country of origin. United States. Original languagesEnglish. No. of seasons. 11. No. of episodes. 13. Production. Executive producersDeirdre Gurney. Scott Gurney. Elaine Frontain Bryant. Lily Neumeyer. LocationsMonroe and West Monroe, Louisiana. Running time. 223. Production companysGurney Productions. Distributor. AE Networks. LionsgateDVDRelease. Original network. A EPicture format. SDTV1. 08. 0i HDTVOriginal release. March 2. 1, 2. 01. March 2. 9, 2. 01. External links. Duck Dynasty on A Ewww. Productionwebsitewww. Duck Dynasty is an American reality television series on A E that portrays the lives of the Robertson family, who became successful from their family operated business, Duck Commander. The West Monroe, Louisiana business makes products for duck hunters, primarily a duck call called Duck Commander. The Robertson menbrothers Phil and Si, and Phils sons Jase, Willie, and Jepare known for their long beards and their Christian views. The family was previously featured on the series Benelli Presents Duck Commander and its spin off, Buck Commander, on the Outdoor Channel 2 Outdoor Channel acquired rerun rights to Duck Dynasty in 2. The show has broken several ratings records on A E and cable television as a whole. The fourth season premiere drew 1. In mid December 2. Phil Robertson gave to GQ magazine resulted in an indefinite suspension by A E, due to remarks he made which were being widely reported in the media as anti gay. Following public pressure on A E to lift the suspension, he was reinstated nine days later. The show earned 8. The series ended on March 2. End of an Era. 1. MemberseditRobertson familyeditParents. Phil Alexander Robertson, born 1. April 2. 4, 1. 94. Marsha Kay Miss Kay Robertson ne Carroway, born 1. December 2. 1, 1. Male     Female. Children. Name. Date of birth. Relationship. 1Marshal Alan Robertson1. January 5, 1. 96. Married to Lisa Gibson the couple have two daughters. Jason Jase Silas Robertson1. August 1. 6, 1. 96. Married to Melissa Missy West the couple have three children. Willie Jess Robertson1. April 2. 2, 1. 97. Married to Korie Maree Howard the couple have six children. Jules Jeptha Jep Robertson1. September 6, 1. 97. Married to Jessica Pamela Strickland the couple have five children. Phil RobertsoneditThe family patriarch and creator of the Duck Commander duck call. He was a standout quarterback at Louisiana Tech1. Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw and was contacted by the Washington Redskins after his junior year. He chose instead to quit football because it interfered with duck hunting season. Phil graduated from Louisiana Tech with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and later received a Masters of Arts degree in Education via night classes while working as a schoolteacher. Phil went through a dark period while running a bar that led to his separation from his wife. It was at this low point he reports that he found Christ and reconciled with his wife. It was then that he invented his duck call, and founded the Duck Commander Company in 1. Phil is known for his dislike of modern technology, calling himself a low tech man in a high tech world, and his concern that his grandchildren are becoming yuppies. At the end of each episode, the family is shown at the dining table, usually with Phil praying over the meal. Marsha Kay Miss Kay RobertsoneditKay Robertson ne Carroway married Phil on January 1. She is usually addressed as Miss Kay by her husband and sons. Kay married Phil at age 1. She is the mother of Alan, Jase, Willie, and Jep. She loves cooking and often has her entire family over for a home cooked meal after a hard days work. Willie RobertsoneditPhil and Miss Kays third son, and CEO of Duck Commander. Willie has a bachelors degree in Health and Human Performance from NE Louisiana University, with an emphasis on Business. He took Duck Commander from a family business to a multimillion dollar empire. He and his wife Korie have six children. John Luke RobertsoneditSon of Willie and Korie, and the second oldest child of the family after Rebecca. He attended Ouachita Christian High School and is currently enrolled at Liberty University. Mary Kate RobertsoneditMary Kate is John Lukes wife. Mary Kate and John Luke were married on June 2. She also attends Liberty University and studies Womens Leadership. Rebecca RobertsoneditThe foster daughter of Willie and Korie, and the eldest of their six children. The family originally were Rebeccas host when she was an exchange student from Taiwan and have since adopted her as their own. After completing a two year fashion internship in Southern California, she returned home to West Monroe and opened a clothing boutique. She married her fiancee, John Reed Loflin, in Mexico on December 3, 2. Sadie RobertsoneditThe daughter of Willie and Korie, who attended Ouachita Christian High School. Her graduation is shown in season 1. Willie Robertson Jr. Adopted son of Willie and Korie. Bella RobertsoneditDaughter of Willie and Korie. Rowdy RobertsoneditAdopted son of Willie and Korie. His adoption is shown being finalized in season 1. Jason Jase RobertsoneditPhil and Miss Kays second son. Jase is in charge of the manufacturing aspects at Duck Commander. Along with other employees, Jase tunes the duck calls by hand. Reed RobertsoneditThe eldest child and first son of Jase and Missy, who attended Ouachita Christian High School, playing football and baseball. His graduation is shown in season six. He is currently attending Harding University, and is married to Brighton Thompson their wedding is shown in season eleven. He started a music career in Nashville. Cole RobertsoneditThe second son of Jase and Missy, who attended Ouachita Christian High School, and played baseball. His graduation is shown in season ten. Mia RobertsoneditThe youngest child and only daughter of Jase and Missy. She was born with a cleft lip and palate and, as of the end of season nine, has had six surgeries to correct it. Jules Jeptha Jep RobertsoneditPhil and Miss Kays youngest son, who films and edits DVDs of the Robertson familys duck hunts. He is often seen at Duck Commander and at family dinners. Jep and Jessica have five children. They introduced the newest addition to their family, an adopted son they named Jules Augustus nicknamed Gus, on the premiere of their spin off series Jep and Jessica Growing the Dynasty3. January 2. 0, 2. 01. The second season premiered on February 2. Children. Name. Date of birth. Lillian Mae Lily Robertson2. December 2. 6, 2. Merritt Decatur Robertson2. July 3. 0, 2. 00. Priscilla June Robertson2. August 4, 2. 00. 6 age 1. River Alexander Robertson2. Shugo Chara Episode Guide Season 3. December 5, 2. 00. Jules Augustus Gus Robertson2. November 6, 2. 01. Marshal Alan RobertsoneditPhil and Kays eldest son, who left the family business to become a preacher, but rejoined the family both doing public relations at Duck Commander and appearing on the show since season four. He wanted to join the show to spread the Word of God to more people. Alan married Lisa Robertson, ne Gibson on November 9, 1. Children. Name. Date of birth. Notes. 1Elizabeth Anna Robertson1. February 2. 8, 1. Married to Jay Stone the couple have three daughters. Katie Alexis Robertson1. November 3. 0, 1. Married to Vinny Mancuso the couple have one son. Silas Si RobertsoneditPhils brother born August 1. Vietnam War veteran, and uncle to Phil and Miss Kays four sons. Si works at Duck Commander making the reeds that go into every duck call.