What you’ll learn to do: summarize consumer protection and antitrust laws

In this section you’ll learn why consumer protection and antitrust laws are needed and what they’re intended to do.

The specific things you’ll learn in this section include the following:

• Explain why consumer protection legislation is needed
• Summarize several consumer protection laws
• Explain the goal of antitrust legislation
• Summarize the provisions of the Sherman Act
• Summarize the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act
• Summarize the provisions of the Clayton Act