Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe Protecting Prometheus

by Gerber, David J.

• ISBN13: 9780199244010
• ISBN10: 0199244014
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-07
• Publisher: Oxford University 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. The competition law of the European Union has played a key role in the success of European integration during the lastfour decades, and it is likely to do so in the future. In recent years, national competition laws have also become increasingly important, often creating tensions between national-level and European-level regulation. Yet, despite its importance, images of European experience with competition lawoften remain vague and are sometimes dangerously distorted. This book examines European experience in protecting competition, analysing its dynamics, revealing its importance and highlighting the political and economic issues it raises.

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