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6 - The Making of Laissez-Faire Antitrust

from Part III - The Decline of the Competition–Democracy Nexus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2024

Elias Deutscher
Affiliation:
University of East Anglia School of Law
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This chapter analyses the decline of the concern about liberty as non-domination and the idea of a competition–democracy nexus following the ascent of the Chicago School and the rise of a More Economic Approach towards antitrust law on both sides of the Atlantic. It shows how the Chicago School not only challenged the economic foundations of the republican antitrust tradition but also put forward the consumer welfare standard as a versatile, principled framework to supersede the conception of republican liberty with a narrow negative notion of economic liberty as non-interference. The Chicago School thus shaped a laissez-faire approach to antitrust that seeks, in the first place, to preserve entrepreneurial liberty against state interference.

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Competition Law and Democracy
Markets as Institutions of Antipower
, pp. 221 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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