Rupprecht Podszun

Competition and Sustainability critically examines how the market economy can be preserved without compromising the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. Serving as a useful overview of the problems and solutions found in one of the most controversial issues in current antitrust doctrine, this topical book offers concrete policy options for EU competition law. How can concerns over climate change, the supply chain, or animal welfare be integrated into antitrust? What can competition agencies do to help transform the market economy to a more sustainable one? Renowned experts in competition economics, law and sustainability answer these questions, and in doing so dissect issues such as cartels, exemptions, monopolisation, the environmental, social, and governance transformation, and merger control. Problems with government intervention in markets, quantification, and the danger of greenwashing are confronted with a thorough examination of the options for policy reform. This indispensable book tackles the transformation to the sustainable market economy with competition at its core. It will prove useful to academics in the fields of competition and antitrust law, corporate law and governance, European law, environmental law, and political economy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in legal and economic fields.

? FairEconomy is a concept for a free and fair market economy. In response to the financial and economic crises of the past years, the authors develop fundamental ideas of how a market economy works, what rules markets need and who safeguards fairness and equal opportunity in such an economy. The book sets out the design of a sustainable market order: Going back to the very roots of doing business it offers a fascinating insight into the cultural and anthropological premises of the market economy. Fairness and free competition can be identified as key elements of successful markets, sometimes neglected in politics and business. Legal rules need to ensure that fairness and economic freedom work. The same holds true for the relationship of risk and liability that has been overlooked in the banking sector. The ideas of a FairEconomy, sketched in this book, are fit to become a reality: The authors point to institutions and mechanisms that could integrate the concept into global law. They place their trust less upon ever-larger institutions and more on private entitlement and enforcement at the global, regional, and local levels. ?

Der Gesetzgeber hat in zahlreichen Branchen eine Wende zum Privatrecht vollzogen: Materien wie die Energiepreiskontrolle sind vom öffentlichen Recht in das Privatrecht gewandert. Damit kommt den Zivilgerichten in der Wirtschaft als einer der letzten hoheitlichen Instanzen eine Schlüsselposition zu - Wirtschaftsordnung durch Zivilgerichte. Wie gehen sie damit um? Was kennzeichnet ihre Entscheidungsprozesse? Welche Schwierigkeiten stellen sich bei der Lösung neuartiger Konflikte im materiellen Recht und im Verfahrensrecht? Was macht 'gute Rechtsprechung' aus? Mit einem von der Evolutionsökonomik inspirierten Ansatz analysiert und bewertet Rupprecht Podszun die Rechtsprechung des Bundesgerichtshofs nach Deregulierungsmaßnahmen. Ohne Reformen wird die Stärkung der privaten Rechtsdurchsetzung die hoheitliche Regulierung nicht ersetzen können. Das Werk wurde 2014 mit dem Forschungspreis Soziale Marktwirtschaft des Verbands der Bayerischen Wirtschaft und des Roman-Herzog-Instituts ausgezeichnet.

? FairEconomy is a concept for a free and fair market economy. In response to the financial and economic crises of the past years, the authors develop fundamental ideas of how a market economy works, what rules markets need and who safeguards fairness and equal opportunity in such an economy. The book sets out the design of a sustainable market order: Going back to the very roots of doing business it offers a fascinating insight into the cultural and anthropological premises of the market economy. Fairness and free competition can be identified as key elements of successful markets, sometimes neglected in politics and business. Legal rules need to ensure that fairness and economic freedom work. The same holds true for the relationship of risk and liability that has been overlooked in the banking sector. The ideas of a FairEconomy, sketched in this book, are fit to become a reality: The authors point to institutions and mechanisms that could integrate the concept into global law. They place their trust less upon ever-larger institutions and more on private entitlement and enforcement at the global, regional, and local levels. ?