Making of Competition Policy: Legal and Economic Sources

This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism, progressivism, the New Deal, structuralism, the Chicago School, and post-Chicago theories. Although the focus is largely on Anglo-American sources, there is also a chapter on European Ordoliberalism, an influential school of thought in post-War Europe. Each chapter begins with a brief essay by one of the editors pulling together the important themes from the period under consideration.

• This book provides an easy point of entry for students of contemporary competition policy interested in surveying the key intellectual developments in competition theory over the past three centuries.
• There is no work like this one that collects, reduces to a manageable size, and contextualizes the texts of the most important intellectual contributions.