Competition law and democracy : markets as institutions of antipower / Elias Deutscher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deutscher, Elias, 1989- author.

Series:

Global competition law and economics policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antitrust law.

Competition.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kigndom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"This book asks how competition and its protection through competition law are linked with democracy. It finds that the supposed symbiosis between competition (law) and democracy rests on a republican understanding of liberty as the absence of domination, which originates in ancient Roman thought"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

The object of inquiry : the idea of a competition-democracy nexus

Republican liberty as the coupling between competition and democracy

The building blocks of a Republican competition law approach

The competition-democracy nexus in US antitrust and EU competition law jurisprudence

The policy parameters of Republican antitrust : presumptions, standard of harm, and the error-cost framework

The making of laissez-faire antitrust

The operationalisation of laissez-faire antitrust law and the decline of Republican liberty

Main findings and avenues towards a competition-democracy nexus 4.0.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Nov 2024).

ISBN:

9781009084055

1009084054

9781009084253

1009084259

9781009075817

1009075810