The Development of European Competition Policy

Social Democracy and Regulation

Brian Shaev, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez

• Editore: Routledge
• Anno: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781351010559
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Commerce
• Categoria: Commerce Général

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).

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.

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.

Indice dei contenuti

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Social democracy and the cartel question: the case of the German SPD
• 3 Swedish social democracy and cartels, 1911–1953
• 4 The German Trade Union Confederation and the cartel policy of the early European communities
• 5 “The economy is our destiny”: socialists and the birth of European competition law, 1950–1962
• 6 Ordering through competition? Pieter VerLoren van Themaat and social-democratic thinking about competition in the early postwar Netherlands, 1940s–1960s
• 7 Social democracy and the foundations of European competition policy and law, 1950–1973
• 8 Finnish social democrats and competition policy: from the first “cartel law” to the application for EU membership
• 9 European Social Democracy, Community Competition Law and Industrial Policy during the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s
• 10 The impossible social-democratic European competition policy, 1985–2000
• 11 Rules and exceptions in the recent history of competition law, 2003–2017: technocracy or scope for a social-democratic perspective?
• 12 A social-democratic dilemma: Swedish competition policy in the 21st century
• Conclusion
• Index