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cblr-2975	Meyer, David L.	Section 2 Standards and Consumer Welfare: Some Lessons from the World of Merger Enforcement	2007	40	.pdf	application/pdf	14574	506	47	After all, isn't maximizing consumer welfare the ultimate goal of antitrust, and won't we best achieve that goal by asking about the effect of a particular practice or conduct using the metric of direct interest?31 Professor Salop correctly observes that standards that key liability to something other than consumer welfare effects, ostensibly in the interest of certainty, will at least sometimes penalize beneficial conduct or, more likely, exonerate harmful conduct. No HSR-reported transaction in recent memory was cleared by the agencies and subsequently challenged by them based on a post-hoc reappraisal of net consumer welfare effects.	cache/cblr-2975.pdf	txt/cblr-2975.txt