Law and Competition in Twentieth Century Europe Protecting Prometheus [Paperback]

In recent years, national competition laws have become increasingly important, often creating tensions between national-level and European-level regulation. Despite this importance, images of Europe's experience with competition law often remain vague and are sometimes dangerously distorted. This book examines the European experience in protecting competition by analyzing its dynamics, revealing its importance, and highlighting the political and economic issues it raises.

1. Introduction
2. Freedom, Law and Competition: The Nineteenth Century as Prelude
3. Fin-de-Si??cle Austria: Conceiving Competition Law
4. Germany Before the First World War: Shaping the Discourse
5. The Interwar Period: Competition Law Takes Root
6. The Postwar Decades: Competition Law and Administrative Policy
7 Ordoliberalism: A New Intellectual Framework for Competition Law.
8. Competition Law and Germany's Social Market Economy
9. Competition Law and European Integration: The Competition Law of the European Union
10. 1986 and After: Competition Law, the Member States and European Union
11. Law, Regulation and Competition: Europe and the Market
Bibliography
Index

Professor David Gerber is Professor of Law and Director of the International and Comparative Law Programme at Chicago-Kent College of Law Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been a Visiting Professor in Law at Munich and Freiburg in Germany, and Stockholm in Sweden. He is also a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He formerly chaired the comparative law section of the Association of American Law Schools, and has been a member of the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. He is also the recipient of the Francis Deak Younger Scholars Prize of the American Society of International Law.