David Harrison's childhood was marred with the trauma of abuse. As an adolescent, he turned to substance abuse to dull the pain. Lost in a private Christian school system with no support, he thought he was stupid-that he'd never amount to anything.

And he believed it all. Feeling broken and unfixable, he began to see suicide as the only escape from hopelessness.

But a friend's death changed Harrison's life. Far from driving him deeper into despair, his friend's passing triggered a spiritual encounter with God that set the young man on a search for deeper truth about...

Competition law underpins the market economy by prohibiting anti-competitive agreements and practices, and the abuse of dominant positions in the market. Until the financial crisis it was widely assumed that the financial services industry was highly competitive. This book explores the extent to which this is the case.

By analysing crisis and pre-crisis competition law cases and examples from the UK, the EU and around the world, David Harrison asks whether there exists good reason for financial services to be treated differently from the rest of the market economy. The theory of market...