"This book asks how competition and its protection through competition law are linked with democracy. It finds that the supposed symbiosis between competition (law) and democracy rests on a republican understanding of liberty as the absence of domination, which originates in ancient Roman thought"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction; Part I: 1. The object of inquiry: The idea of a competition-democracy nexus; 2. Republican liberty as the coupling between competition and democracy; Part II: 3. The building blocks of a republican competition law approach; 4. The competition-democracy nexus in US antitrust and EU competition law jurisprudence; 5. The policy parameters of republican antitrust: presumptions, standard of harm, and the error-cost framework; Part III: 6. The making of Laissez-Faire antitrust; 7. The operationalisation of Laissez-Faire antitrust law and the decline of republican liberty; Part IV: 8. Main findings and avenues towards a competition-democracy nexus 4.0; 9. Bibliography.
