Ky Ewing’s magisterial work on international competition law is here updated
to take stock of the prodigious expansion of anti-cartel enforcement
throughout the world in the intervening years.
Although the book has been highly regarded as a major reconsideration of the
foundations of competition law and policy, it has also proven enormously
valuable for its wealth of information and practical guidance. Among its most
useful features (some new to the second edition) are the following:
• a vast amount of statistical and other information about public competition
law enforcement agencies and their resources around the world;
• in-depth analysis of the differences in competition law regimes and the
various economic and legal theories from which they derive;
• detailed attention to jurisprudence and legal commentary over many decades;
• probing of the meaning of ‘low’ and ‘fair’ as applied to prices;
• suggestions for carrying out re-evaluation of policies on the basis of
empirical evidence;
• formulation of a model new U.S. competition law preempting state laws; and
• guidelines on distinguishing useful collaboration from collusive activity.
Nine new appendices have been added to this edition, covering such informative
material as new statistical data about U.S. enforcement, details on the
dramatic cooperation now taking place among nations in anti-cartel
enforcement, and suggestions on how companies and practitioners should respond
to multinational investigations.