PRINCIPLES OF PROTECTING DIFFUSE INTERESTS AND COMMON GOODS : WHICH ORDRE PUBLIC FOR GLOBALIZED MARKETS ? Whereas in earlier times, it was for the national parliament to balance economic freedoms and protection of colliding values, nation-states nowadays, i.e., at times of globalisation, face...

This outstanding collection of original essays brings together some of the leading experts in competition economics, policy and law. They examine what lies at the core of the ‘economic approach to competition law’ and deal with its normative and institutional limitations. In recent years the...

The context for this book is the increasingly complex relationship between economic theory and competition law which gives rise to lively political and academic debate on the direction competition law should take in a more global and innovation-oriented market place.

This outstanding collection of original essays brings together some of the leading experts in competition economics, policy and law. They examine what lies at the core of the ‘economic approach to competition law’ and deal with its normative and institutional limitations. In recent...