Umfang:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415605793
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9780203828526
Serie:
RIPE Series in Global Political Economy Series
Inhalt:
Examines the political power struggles that have shaped the evolution of European competition regulation over the past six decades
Anmerkung:
Cover -- The Politics of European Competition Regulation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- How this book differs -- The structure of the book -- 1. Theorising competition regulation: a critical political economy perspective -- 1.1 Ontological refl ections -- 1.2 Capitalism and competition -- 1.3 Theorising competition regulation -- 1.4 Classes and class fractions -- 1.5 Social forces and discourses of competition regulation -- 1.6 Conceptualising the state and supranational institutions -- Conclusion -- 2. The origins of European competition regulation I: national level developments -- 2.1 The US antitrust movement and the 1890 Sherman Act -- 2.2 Cartels and economic concentration in industrialising Europe -- 2.3 The political role of cartels in the rise of Nazi Germany -- 2.4 The infl uence of US antitrust architects on rebuilding post-war Germany -- 2.5 The German cartel regulation and the question of ordoliberal infl uence -- 2.6 Competition regulation in France -- 2.7 Competition regulation in the UK -- Conclusion -- 3. The origins of European competition regulation II: the supranational level -- 3.1 The Schuman Declaration -- 3.2 Establishing the ECSC competition unit of regulation -- 3.3 The content, form and scope of the ECSC competition unit -- 3.4 Establishing the EC competition unit of regulation -- 3.5 The content, form and scope of the EC competition unit -- 3.6 The adoption of Regulation 17/62 -- Conclusion -- 4. European competition regulation in the era of embedded liberalism -- 4.1 The era of the embedded liberalism compromise -- 4.2 Responding to the American Challenge -- 4.3 National competition regulation and the introduction of merger control -- 4.4 The development and enforcement of EC competition policy in the 1960s
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4.5 EC Competition regulation and crisis management in the 1970s -- 4.6 The 1973 proposal for an EC merger regulation -- Conclusion -- 5. The neoliberalisation of European competition regulation -- 5.1 The crisis of embedded liberalism and the ascendancy of neoliberalism -- 5.2 The transformation of national competition regulation in the 1980s -- 5.3 EC competition regulation in the transition phase -- 5.4 Transnational capital and the re-launch of the European integration project -- 5.5 The neoliberal turn in EC competition regulation -- 5.6 Transnational capital and the question of EC merger control -- 5.7 The adoption of the 1989 merger control regulation -- Conclusion -- 6. Consolidating neoliberalism: European competition regulation from the 1990s onwards -- 6.1 The transnationalisation of capitalism -- 6.2 The neoliberal hegemony of the 1990s -- 6.3 Transnational capital and the 'ayatollahs' of neoliberal competition regulation -- 6.4 Cartel prosecution, privatisation and state aid in neoliberal times -- 6.5 Neoliberal enforcement practices in EC merger control -- 6.6 National competition regulation -- Conclusion -- 7. EC competition regulation at the dawn of the century: modernisation, contestation and crisis -- 7.1 The privatisation and (de)centralisation of EC competition regulation -- 7.2 The 'microeconomisation' of EC competition regulation -- 7.3 The driving forces behind Regulation 1/2003 -- 7.4 The politics of reforming EC merger control -- 7.5 A renewed moment of contestation to neoliberal EC competition regulation -- 7.6 European competition regulation in the wake of the global fi nancial crisis -- Conclusion -- 8. The neoliberal crusade for bilateral and multilateral competition rules -- 8.1 Confl ict and cooperation across the Atlantic -- 8.2 United corporate agenda setting for more and faster liberalisation
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8.3 Towards transatlantic convergence of competition rules -- 8.4 Multilateralising competition rules: the vanguard role of the European Commission -- 8.5 Political contestation and the end of the multilateral competition project -- 8.6 The International Competition Network and the Commission's reinvigorated bilateralism -- Conclusion -- Concluding remarks -- The transformation of European competition regulation -- Towards a paradigm shift? -- Outline of an alternative vision for competition regulation -- Notes -- References -- Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Buch-Hansen, Hubert The Politics of European Competition Regulation Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415605793
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Englisch
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