The Goals of Competition Law

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The Goals of Competition Law is written by Daniel Zimmer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0857936611 (ISBN 10) and 9780857936615 (ISBN 13).

What are the normative foundations of competition law? That is the question at the heart of this book. Leading scholars consider whether this branch of law serves just one or more than one goal, and if it serves to protect unfettered competition as such, how this goal relates to other objectives such as the promotion of economic welfare. The book brings together contributions on the relevance of different welfare standards, on the concept of 'freedom to compete' and on distributional fairness as a goal of competition law. Moreover, it discusses the relationship to other legal goals such as mar.