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Competition is an intriguing and worrisome concept, sometimes perceived as a healthy emulation and sometimes as a form of Darwinism. Economic analysis provides a useful and rigorous guide to overcoming these oversimplified views by showing that competition is a mechanism for eliminating unjustified rents. This book presents the two main economic visions of competition (competition as a state versus as a process), but also its microeconomic and macroeconomic effects (notably on productivity and employment), the obstacles to its effectiveness, and the policies for opening up and regulating competition.
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Emmanuel Combe est Vice-pre¿sident de l'Autorite¿ de la concurrence depuis 2012. Spe¿cialiste des questions de concurrence, de nouveaux mode¿les e¿conomiques, de protectionnisme et de politique industrielle, il est normalien, docteur en e¿conomie (Universite¿ de Paris 1 Panthe¿on Sorbonne) et agre¿ge¿ des Faculte¿s de droit et sciences e¿conomiques. Il est professeur d'e¿conomie ä l'Universite¿ de Paris 1 Panthe¿on-Sorbonne (en de¿tachement depuis 2012) et professeur ä Skema Business School.Il est l'auteur d'un best seller d'e¿conomie ge¿ne¿rale (Pre¿cis d'e¿conomie, PUF, 15e¿me e¿dition). Il est chroniqueur ä L'Opinion et aux Echos et a publie¿ chez Concurrences un premier volume de ses chroniques en 2018, Petit manuel - irre¿ve¿rencieux - d'e¿conomie.
