The Making of Competition Policy ─ Legal and Economic Sources

This book provides edited selections of primary source material in the intellectual history of competition policy from Adam Smith to the present day. Chapters include classical theories of competition, the U.S. founding era, classicism and neoclassicism, progressivism, the New Deal, structuralism, the Chicago School, and post-Chicago theories. Although the focus is largely on Anglo-American sources, there is also a chapter on European Ordoliberalism, an influential school of thought in post-War Europe. Each chapter begins with a brief essay by one of the editors pulling together the important themes from the period under consideration.

Daniel A. Crane is Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches contracts, antitrust, and legislation and regulation. He was formerly Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Visiting Professor at NYU and the University of Chicago, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal.

Herbert Hovenkamp is the Ben V. & Dorothy Willie Professor of Law at the University of Iowa. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and recipient of the Justice Department's John Sherman Award. He teaches antitrust, innovation and competition policy, torts, and American legal history.