The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation (Routledge Explorations in Economic History) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 103276998X ISBN 13: 9781032769981

Publisher: Routledge, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Brian Shaev is University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103276998X
• ISBN 13: 9781032769981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342
• Editor: Shaev Brian, Ramírez Pérez Sigfrido M.