Antitrust and the Multivalued Function of Competition

By Luiz Felipe Rosa Ramos

The book offers a renewed approach to the debate on antitrust goals. Based on a legal-sociological perspective, it conceives competition as a form with social functions. Thus, competition is not a mere derivation of efficiency or consumer welfare, but an autonomous goal of antitrust which pervades cartel, unilateral conduct and merger cases. According to Tobias Werron, this is a "great piece of scholarship (...) that suggests an openness of mind and independence of thought". Celso Campilongo writes: "the publication of this work ought to be celebrated. It is far from trivial or usual to reconstruct (...) a sociology of antitrust law".

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3848783134
• ISBN13: 9783848783137
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.