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The Pros And Cons Of Antitrust Law

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The genesis of antitrust law in the XIX century was rotted in a social reaction against business practices perceived as unfair, however, the legal area has been shaped using an epistemological background in economics with its virtues and its weakness. However, some legal scholars and policy makers have advocate for a exclusive union of antitrust law or competition law with economics, arguing that economic science should be the only lens for antitrust analysis (Bork, 1978) (United States Senate, 2013) To the extent, that some of these authors see antitrust law also as a “branch of o applied economics”, with efficiency as unique goal. (Posner R. , The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, 1999). That said, many scholars that support the marriage …show more content…

(Kohlberg, Stage and Sequence: The Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Socialization, 1969) Probably, the most well known representative of this view is Lawrence Kohlberg’s and colleagues who claim “that moral development proceeds through a stage hierarchy in a step-wise, invariant sequence, regardless of sub – and cross – cultural variation in moral norms and beliefs.” (Kohlberg, Levine, & Hewer, Moral Stages: A Current Formulation and Response, …show more content…

Second, through a culture learning process and experience humans modify the initial draft through childhood and to some extent in adulthood. Third, moral judgments are the result of automatic process that bypasses reason and reaches a moral judgment without any process of conscious thought. Fourth, if evolution has shaped human’s moral first draft and foundations morality as a response to margin changes in nature and vicissitudes of life and society then there might exist a plural response for diverse adaptation challenges, so far six moral foundations have been identified that have been traced back to our ancestors. (Graham, et al.,

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