Competition Law and Democracy - Markets As Institutions of Antipower

"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"--

List of contents

Introduction; Part I: 1. The object of inquiry: The idea of a competition–democracy nexus; 2. Republican liberty as the coupling between competition and democracy; Part II: 3. The building blocks of a republican competition law approach; 4. The competition–democracy nexus in US antitrust and EU competition law jurisprudence; 5. The policy parameters of republican antitrust: presumptions, standard of harm, and the error-cost framework; Part III: 6. The making of Laissez-Faire antitrust; 7. The operationalisation of Laissez-Faire antitrust law and the decline of republican liberty; Part IV: 8. Main findings and avenues towards a competition–democracy nexus 4.0; 9. Bibliography.

About the author

Dr. Elias Deutscher is an Associate Professor in Competition Law and a member of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia. As a trained lawyer and political scientist, he publishes widely on the normative, conceptual and historical foundations of competition law, and new challenges for competition policy in digital and innovation-driven markets.

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.

Foreword

This book explores how competition and its protection through competition law are linked with democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Elias Deutscher, Elias (University of East Anglia School Deutscher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781316513675
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51367-5
• No. of pages: 426
• Series: Global Competition Law and Economics Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, LAW / Comparative, LAW / Antitrust, Political structures: democracy, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, comparative law, EU (European Union), Competition law / Antitrust law