Prof Rudolph Peritz has argued that competition law in the United States has evolved around two sometimes conflicting concepts of competition: first that of individual liberty, free of government intervention, and second a fair competitive environment free of excessive economic power.
教授魯道夫·裴瑞茲（Rudolph Peritz）表示，美國競爭法已演化成兩個有時會互衝突的競爭概念：第一個為個人自由，不受政府干預，第二個為免於過度經濟力量的公平競爭環境。