Antitrust and Upstream Platform Power Plays - A Policy in Bed With Procrustes

Combining legal reasoning with insights from an array of disciplines, Antitrust and Upstream Platform Power Plays addresses how antitrust policy should regulate powerful digital platforms that exploit dependent suppliers "upstream" in the value chain, providing a normative, theoretical, and practical analysis.

List of contents

• Introduction: Setting the scene


• Part 1: Soul-searching


• 1: 'Consumer warfare': antitrust's consequentialist turn


• 2: 'Competition, as such': antitrust's deontological side


• Part 2: Looking up


• 3: Despotism


• 4: Game-mastering


• 5: Free-riding


• Part 3: Intervention


• 6: Antitrust's internal quandries


• 7: Antitrust's interplays


• Conclusion


• End matter

About the author

A.K. von Moltke is a legal adviser at the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) in Brussels. He is also an associate at the University of Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy (CCLP). Prior to joining the BIPT, von Moltke was part of a group of researchers at the University of Oxford awarded funding by the Leverhulme Trust to conduct a study on the relationship between competition policy and wealth distribution. Von Moltke holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has also worked in private practice with a leading US law firm in Brussels.

Summary

Combining legal reasoning with insights from an array of disciplines, Antitrust and Upstream Platform Power Plays addresses how antitrust policy should regulate powerful digital platforms that exploit dependent suppliers "upstream" in the value chain, providing a normative, theoretical, and practical analysis.

Product details

• Authors: von Moltke , A.K. von Moltke, A.k. (Legal Adviser Von Moltke
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9780192873057
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287305-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, LAW / Communications, LAW / Computer & Internet, LAW / Antitrust, Business & management, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, Competition law / Antitrust law, IT & Communications law