Development of European Competition Policy

<p>This book considers a central issue of our time: the relationship between the macroeconomic objectives of political parties in democratic countries and the legal framework of market economies. The impressive panel of contributors examines social-democratic policies on cartels market concentration and competition in different European countries spanning a hundred-year period (specifically the interwar period the initial postwar period the 1960s and 1970s the 1980s and 1990s and the 2000s).</p><p>This thought-provoking volume challenges the dominant belief that the EU’s economic system and competition policy were mainly influenced by neoliberal economic thinking instead showing that Keynesian and social-democratic positions played a major role in the emergence of this system.</p><p>It will be valuable reading for advanced students researchers and policymakers interested in modern economic history industrial organization political economy European legal history and political science.</p>