Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe Protecting Prometheus

by Gerber, David J.

• ISBN13: 9780198262855
• ISBN10: 019826285X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-04
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Protecting economic competition has become a major objective of government in Western Europe, and competition law has become a central part of economic and legal experience. National competition laws have long helped shape the relationship between government and the economy, and theirinfluence has grown dramatically during the last decade. Competition law has also played a key role in the process of European integration, and is likely to do so in the future. Yet, despite its importance, images of European experience with competition law often remain vague and are sometimesdangerously distorted. This book examines that experience, analysing the dynamics of European competition law systems, revealing their impacts and assessing the political and economic issues they raise.

Author Biography

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

Table of Abbreviations	xxvii
Introduction	1	(15)
Freedom, Law, and Competition: The Nineteenth Century as Prelude	16	(27)
Fin-de-Siecle Austria: Conceiving Competition Law	43	(26)
Germany Before the First World War: Fashioning the Discourse	69	(46)
The Interwar Period: Competition Law Takes Root	115	(50)
The Postwar Decades: Competition Law and Administrative Policy	165	(67)
Ordoliberalism: A New Intellectual Framework for Competition Law	232	(34)
Competition Law and Germany's Social Market Economy	266	(68)
Competition Law and European Integration: The Competition Law of the European Union	334	(58)
1986 and After: Competition Law, the Member States, and the European Union	392	(25)
Law, Regulation, and Competition: Europe and the Market	417	(20)
Bibliography	437	(32)
Index	469