Reconciling efficiency and equity : a global challenge for competition policy / edited by Damien Gerard, Ioannis Lianos.

Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I Framing the Tension between Equity and Efficiency as a Global Challenge for Competition Policy: The Vision of a Pioneer; 1 Eleanor Fox: Insights from an Outsider; 2 Citizen Fox: The Global Vision of Eleanor Fox; Part II Reconciling Equity and Efficiency: The Challenge of Making Markets Work for People; A Competition for the People; 3 The Poverty of Competition Law: The Short Story

4 The Social Contract at the Basis of Competition Law: Should We Recalibrate Competition Law to Limit Inequality?5 Oligarchies, Competition, and Development; 6 Promoting Competition Reforms for the Benefit of Ordinary People; 7 Competition (Law) and Access to Telecommunications Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa; 8 Competition Law Prescriptions and Competitive Outcomes: Insights from Southern and East Africa; B Competition against Power; 9 The Australian Controversy over Abuse of Market Power Law: A Study in Political Economy; Appendix 1 Divestiture

10 Antitrust Enforcement and Market Power in the Digital Age: Is Your Digital Assistant Devious?11 Economic Efficiency versus Democracy: On the Potential Role of Competition Policy in Regulating Digital Markets in Times of Post-Truth Politics; C Competition, Inequality, and Industrial Policy; 12 Competition Policy versus Industrial Policy: Challenging the Mainstream Orthodoxy; 13 Antitrust, Industrial Policy, and Economic Populism; Part III Reconciling Equity and Efficiency: The Challenge of Effective Antitrust Enforcement; A Designing Effective Enforcement Systems

14 Competition Culture and the Cultural Dimensions of Competition15 Formula for Success: A Formula One Approach to Understanding Competition Law System Performance; 16 Evaluating the Performance of Competition Agencies: The Limits of Assessment Methodologies and Their Policy Implications; 17 Toward a Realistic Comparative Assessment of Private Antitrust Enforcement; 18 Antitrust Enforcement in the US and the EU: A Comparison of the Two Federal Systems; 19 Galvanising National Competition Authorities in the European Union

B Effective Coordination of Enforcement Systems: A Global Governance Perspective20 Extraterritoriality and the Question of Jurisdiction in Competition Law; 21 Competition Enforcement, Trade and Global Governance: A Few Comments; 22 International Enforcement Cooperation and the Dynamics of Convergence; Afterword; 23 Competition Policy at the Intersection of Equity and Efficiency: The Developed and Developing Worlds; Index

Provides a new conceptualization of competition law as economic inequality and its interaction with efficiency become of central concern to policy and decision-makers.

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