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9. antitrust laws cooperation among oligopolies runs counter to the public interest because it leads to underproduction and high prices. in an effort to bring resource allocation closer to the social optimum, public officials attempt to force oligopolies to compete instead of cooperating. consider the following scenario: suppose that the leader-s of several oil corporations hold a secret meeting in the cayman islands where they agree to restrict fuel output in order to boost prices. as a result of the higher fuel prices, an airline company loses billions of dollars. this airline company could recover three times the damages it has sustained by suing the appropriate oil corporations under which of the following laws? the celler-kefauver act of 1950 the sherman antitrust act of 1890 the clayton act of 1914 the robinson-patman act of 1936

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