Chapter 4.   Joel Klein's Great Leap Forward

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     When the U.S. Department of "Justice" (Anti-Trust Division, headed at the time by Joel Klein) was urged to investigate substantial evidence of auto and oil industry sabotage and misconduct regarding EV development, they whitewashed the entire matter after a brief and perfunctory investigation.  Joel Klein's crusade against Microsoft has revealed some disturbing similarities regarding the ease with which generous special interests can influence the actions of a federal agency, even if the public is substantially harmed in the process. . . . (chapter has 14 pages).

Learn more by reading:

Winners, Losers and Microsoft:  Competition and Antitrust in High Technology by S. Liebowitz and S. Margolis
Trust on Trial:  How the Microsoft Case is Reframing the Rules of Competition by Richard McKenzie
U.S. v. Microsoft:  The Inside Story of the Landmark Case by J. Brinkley and S. Lohr
How the Web was Won:  How Bill Gates and His Internet Idealists Transformed the Microsoft Empire by Paul Andrews
The Silicon Boys and Their Valley of Dreams by David Kaplan