Global Antitrust and Sustainability

Resumen del libro

Sustainability has received increasing attention in recent years, particularly surrounding concerns of poverty in the Global South, the climate emergency, the loss of biodiversity, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Competition and public authorities are more frequently encountering sustainability questions, while states are more generally called upon to foster sustainability by the UN Resolution 70/1. Against this backdrop, and drawing on cases and materials from different jurisdictions, Global Antitrust and Sustainability: Law, Economics, Enforcement explores the interaction between antitrust law and sustainability from the perspectives of law, economics, and the enforcement of such rules.

The book introduces the concept of sustainability and its environmental, social, and economic pillars and then gathers key insights from economic theory and economic studies on the relationship between competition and sustainability. The subsequent chapters examine legal provisions, cases, and other materials from around the globe to analyse how competition agencies have responded to the sustainability challenge, and the effectiveness of their action.

Insightful and pioneering, Global Antitrust and Sustainability makes timely recommendations to ensure that competition policy contributes to a more sustainable world and will be an invaluable resource for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners.

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• Offers readers a well-rounded understanding of the intersection between antitrust and sustainability through its interdisciplinary approach
• Draws on diverse cases and materials from around the world, providing a global perspective on antitrust and sustainability
• Provides practical solutions about how competition authorities can address anticompetitive practices and actively promote sustainability
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations

Índice

Chapter 1:Introduction: scope and limits of sustainability and antitrust law
Chapter 2:The economics of competition and sustainability: good and bad competition
Chapter 3:Competition authorities as guardians of sustainability
Chapter 4:Competition authorities as public enablers of private sustainability efforts
Chapter 5:Process matters
Chapter 6:Conclusion