Your best friend, marc, leaves you a voice mail, asking if he can change the restaurant where you had agreed to meet him for dinner. just as he mentions the new place where he wants to eat, his voice is drowned out by a loud conversation going on in the background. it sounded like marc said antonio's, a restaurant that you eat at frequently with marc. so, you go to antonio's and, sure enough, marc is there waiting for you. this situation illustrates

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 presidents of two auto manufacturing companies exchange text messages in which they discuss jointly raising prices on their new lines of hybrid suvs. this illegal communication would violate which of the following laws? the sherman antitrust act of 1890 the robinson–patman act of 1936 the celler–kefauver act of 1950 the clayton act of 1914