Antitrust and the Multivalued Function of Competition

The book offers a renewed approach to the debate on antitrust goals. Based on a legal-sociological perspective, it conceives competition as a form with social functions. Thus, competition is not a mere derivation of efficiency or consumer welfare, but an autonomous goal of antitrust which pervades cartel, unilateral conduct and merger cases. According to Tobias Werron, this is a "great piece of scholarship (...) that suggests an openness of mind and independence of thought". Celso Campilongo writes: "the publication of this work ought to be celebrated. It is far from trivial or usual to reconstruct (...) a sociology of antitrust law".

Summary

The book offers a renewed approach to the debate on antitrust goals. Based on a legal-sociological perspective, it conceives competition as a form with social functions. Thus, competition is not a mere derivation of efficiency or consumer welfare, but an autonomous goal of antitrust which pervades cartel, unilateral conduct and merger cases. According to Tobias Werron, this is a “great piece of scholarship (…) that suggests an openness of mind and independence of thought”. Celso Campilongo writes: “the publication of this work ought to be celebrated. It is far from trivial or usual to reconstruct (…) a sociology of antitrust law”.

Product details

• Authors: Luiz Felipe Rosa Ramos
• Publisher: Nomos
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2021
• EAN: 9783848783137
• ISBN: 978-3-8487-8313-7
• No. of pages: 306
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 23 mm x 228 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Recht und Gesellschaft - Law and Society; Recht und Gesellschaft – Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; Wirtschaftsrecht, Soziologie, Kartellrecht, Konkurrenz, Wettbewerb, Wettbewerbsrecht, Rechtssoziologie, Brasilien, Systemtheorie, NG-Rabatt, Recht und Gesellschaft, Rechtssoziologie, Kartellziele, Soziologie des Kartellrechts