Question

The Clayton Act of 1914 makes price discrimination, exclusive dealers, tying contracts, and the acquisition of competing companies' stock illegal when their effects "substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly."
A. True
B. False

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is the option A: True.

Explanation:

To begin with, the "Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914" is the name given to a law that was part of United States antitrust law regime that had the main purpose of adding further substance to it in order to prevent anticompetitive practices by the companies in the market. Therefore that this law discusses four principles of economic trade and business which were the price discrimination, mergers and acquisitions, exclusive dealings and any person who was a manager of two or more organizations at the same time. It all focused on protecting the competition from the companies that looked for becoming a monopoly.