id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cblr-5116	Aron, Debra; Tenn, Steven	An Economic Perspective on Balancing Unquantified Harms and Benefits Under the Consumer Welfare Standard	2019	18	.pdf	application/pdf	6006	242	45	Accepting nebulous theories of harm (such as the “accumulation of political power”), and by parity of reasoning, vague “public interest” defenses (such as a claim that an agreement among rivals would reduce economic inequality) would lead to inconsistent results and evade the rule of law.3 As we will discuss in these remarks, positing that public interest considerations are separate or excluded from consumer welfare effects of a merger or accused conduct is difficult to defend from an economic perspective. Specifically, public interest considerations and other potentially nebulous factors also affect consumer welfare broadly conceived.	cache/cblr-5116.pdf	txt/cblr-5116.txt