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Antitrust and Trade Regulation

2011

Victor J. Calvete

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O Estatuto Jurídico Do Económico, Victor J. Calvete Dec 2010

O Estatuto Jurídico Do Económico, Victor J. Calvete

Victor J. Calvete

Ordo-liberalism seems the perfect excuse for European antitrust decisions being different from American ones. (In fact, nowadays Ordo-liberalism seems to be a perfect excuse for a growing number of things.) Within the alloted space (20 single pages) I tried to warn against such an easy way out – and failed (in the end there were 21). First of all, under the umbrella of Ordo-liberalism, the so called “Freiburg School” (Walter Eucken, Franz Bohm, Grossmann-Doerth, ...) goes hand in hand with the quite different “Social Market Economy” (Alfred Muller-Armack, Ludwig Erhard, ...), and with several conceptions of Authors not so socially …