PART Ⅰ NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF COMPETITION LAW 3
1 On the choice of welfare standards in competition law&Louis Kaplow 3
2 What is competition?&Maurice E Stucke 27
3 Characteristic aspects of competition and their consequences for the objectives of competition law-comment on Stucke&Andreas Fuchs 53
4 The multiple personalities of EU competition law: time for a comprehensive debate on its objectives&Laura Parret 61
5 The goals of European competition law: some distortions in the literature-comment on Parret&David J Gerber 85
6 Thinking inside the box: why competition as a process is a sui generis right-a methodological observation&Oles Andriychuk 95
7 Legal interpretation and practice versus legal theory: a reconciliation of competition goals-comment on Andriychuk&Anca Daniela Chiritd 118
8 On the normative foundations of competition law-efficiency,political freedom and the freedom to compete&Frank Maier-Rigaud 132
9 Efficiency, political freedom and the freedom to compete-comment on Maier-Rigaud&Heike Schweitzer 169
10 Economic content of competition law: the point of regulating preferences&Adrian Kunzler 182
11 On the difference of methodology in jurisprudence and economics-comment on Kunzler&Iwakazu Takahashi 214
12 Do words matter?A discussion on words used to designate values associated with competition law&Paul Nihoul 219
13 On words and on shifting their meaning-comment on Nihoul&Josef Bejcek 249
14 Antitrust pluralism and justice&Abayomi Al-Ameen 260
15 Antitrust pluralism and justice-comment on Al-Ameen&Michal S Gal and Eran Fish 284
PART Ⅱ SELECTED ISSUES RELATED TO THE GOALS OF COMPETITION LAW 295
16 The single market imperative and consumer welfare:irreconcilable goals?Exploring the tensions amongst the objectives of European competition law through the lens of parallel trade in pharmaceuticals&Matteo Negrinotti 295
17 Goals of union competition law on regulated markets:pharmaceutical industry and parallel trade-comment on Negrinotti&Lubos Tichy 338
18 Excessive pricing and the goals of competition law&Thomas Ackermann 349
19 Excessive pricing and the goals of competition law:an enforcement perspective-comment on Ackermann&Jorg Philipp Terhechte 371
20 China’s Anti-Monopoly Law: agent of competition enhancement or engine of industrial policy?&Xiaoye Wang and Jessica Su 379
21 China’s Anti-Monopoly Law: agent of competition enhancement or engine of industrial policy?Comment on Wang and Su&Deborah Healey 398
22 Reflections on the concepts of‘economic freedom’,‘free competition’and‘effciency’from the perspective of developing countries&Mor Bakhoum 408
23 A social approach to the goals of competition law in developing countries-comment on Bakhoum&Karounga Diawara 441
24 Competition law goals in agricultural markets: a Latin American perspective&Juan David Gutierrez Rodriguez 450
25 Agricultural markets and competition policy in Latin America:conflicts of goals, rules and enforcement policies-comment on Gutierrez Rodriguez&Carlos Pablo Ma rquez 476
26 The basic goal of competition law: to protect the opposite side of the market&Daniel Zimmer 486
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