1st Edition
The Development of European Competition Policy Social Democracy and Regulation
1. Introduction, Brian Shaev
2. Social democracy and the cartel question: the case of the German SPD, Harm G. Schröter
3. Swedish social democracy and cartels, 1911–1953, Birgit Karlsson
4. The German Trade Union Confederation and the cartel policy of the early European communities, Severin Cramm
5. “The economy is our destiny”: socialists and the birth of European competition law, 1950–1962, Brian Shaev
6. Ordering through competition? Pieter VerLoren van Themaat and social-democratic thinking about competition in the early postwar Netherlands, 1940s–1960s, Karin van Leeuwen
7. Social democracy and the foundations of European competition policy and law, 1950–1973, Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez
8. Finnish social democrats and competition policy: from the first “cartel law” to the application for EU membership, Susanna Fellman
9. European Social Democracy, Community Competition Law and Industrial Policy during the crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, Dimitri Zurstrassen
10. The impossible social-democratic European competition policy, 1985–2000, Laurent Warlouzet
11. Rules and exceptions in the recent history of competition law, 2003–2017: technocracy or scope for a social-democratic perspective? Wolf Sauter
12. A social-democratic dilemma: Swedish competition policy in the 21st century, John Lapidus
13. Conclusion, Vera Ŝćepanović and Brian Shaev
Biography
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.
