Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe: Protecting Prometheus

by David J. Gerber

Overview

In recent years, national competition laws have become increasingly important, often creating tensions between national-level and European-level regulation. Despite this importance, images of Europe's experience with competition law often remain vague and are sometimes dangerously distorted. This book examines the European experience in protecting competition by analyzing its dynamics, revealing its importance, and highlighting the political and economic issues it raises.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198262855
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/04/1998
Pages:	486
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1600L (what's this?)

About the Author

Professor David Gerber is Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Programme at Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor in Law at Munich and Freiburg in Germany, and Stockholm in Sweden. He is also a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He formerly chaired the comparative law section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. He is also the recipient of the Francis Deak Younger Scholars Prize of the American Society of International Law.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Freedom, Law and Competition: The Nineteenth Century as Prelude3. Fin-de-Siècle Austria: Conceiving Competition Law4. Germany Before the First World War: Shaping the Discourse5. The Interwar Period: Competition Law Takes Root6. The Postwar Decades: Competition Law and Administrative Policy7 Ordoliberalism: A New Intellectual Framework for Competition Law. 8. Competition Law and Germany's Social Market Economy9. Competition Law and European Integration: The Competition Law of the European Union10. 1986 and After: Competition Law, the Member States and European Union11. Law, Regulation and Competition: Europe and the MarketBibliographyIndex