Legal reasoning, antitrust policy and the social "science" of economics

There is an area some eight to ten miles off Astoria, Oregon, called "The Bar," where the fresh water of the Columbia River meets the salt water of the Pacific Ocean. It is a place of turbulent, shifting currents and choppy waters where moving sand bars trap even the most experienced sailors. Like sailing "The Bar," crossing intellectual disciplines is often not the simple blend of one glass of water with another, but the turbid mixture of one substance and force with another.