Ideas, Law & Market Order
The Political Economy of Competition: From American Antitrust to European Market Order
Who decides how big a company can get? Competition policy and the clash between American and European capitalism.
17:00 · Hybrid
What you will learn
This workshop aims to give an understanding of the evolution of competition law and policy from its birth to today. The objective is to go beyond the technical aspects of the discipline and put it into political, historical and economic perspective. The workshop builds on a comparison between the US and the EU, showing the differences and similarities of competition policy on the two sides of the Atlantic and linking them to the various forms of Western capitalism.
Why it matters now
Competition policy is one of the pillars of regulation in modern capitalist economies. Understanding it beyond its legal and economic technicalities helps us better grasp the differences between two models of capitalism in the US and the EU. This is of fundamental importance in an age of increasing clashes between these two models and of rising concentration of power in the hands of dominant firms.
Syllabus & schedule
General information
All seminars run from 17:00 to 19:00 and are hybrid: participants can join in person or online. Each syllabus comes in three reading options: short (40–60 pp.), intermediate (70–80 pp.) and long (110–120 pp.). The syllabus and the weekly reading schedule can be found here.
Seminar schedule
Wednesday, Mar. 3 (17:00-19:00 CET):
US Antitrust: Origins and TransformationWednesday, Mar. 10 (17:00-19:00 CET):
European Competition Policy todayWednesday, Mar. 17 (17:00-19:00 CET):
Tracing back the origins of EU CompetitionWednesday, Mar. 24 (17:00-19:00 CET):
Atlantic Divide: An Alternative Look at EU Competition LawTuesday, Mar. 30 (17:00-19:00 CEST):
The Future of Competition Policy
Organizers
Luca Gerlinger
Co-founder & Organizer
Università Bocconi
Lorenzo Rosi
Paris Coordinator & Organizer
Paris School of Economics
Guests
Chase Foster
Lecturer in Politics
King's College London
Frédéric Marty
CNRS Research Director
GREDEG, Université Côte d'Azur
Angela Wigger
Associate Professor of International Relations
Radboud University
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