Cartel Criminality: The Mythology and Pathology of Business Collusion

ISBN-13: 9780367597566 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Christopher Harding; Jennifer Edwards

Opis

Anti-competitive business cartels engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world. Cartel Criminality discusses these business cartels, why they come into existence an

Recenzje

’This book is a novel and important addition to the cartel literature. It offers insights that will impact a number of fields of study: law, criminology, sociology, economics and management.’ D. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida, USA

Spis treści

Preface. Part I Theory and Method: Probing the Pathology and Mythology of Business Collusion: Orientation; The phenomenon of cartelisation; The normative basis of regulation and sanctions: pathology and mythology revisited. Part II Narratives and Analysis: Tales of Anti-Cartel Enforcement as Criminological Testing: Data and method: historical narrative and analysis; Cartel biographies: six narratives of cartel prehistory, lifetime and after-life; Measuring impact: conceptual and methodological problems; Desistance, recalcitrance and cartelist after-life; Tales of cultural diversity - how to deal with the dancing giants? Postscript

O autorze

Christopher Harding is Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University, UK. Jennefer Edwards is a Leverhume Trust research assistant at Aberystwyth University, UK.