The book offers a renewed approach to the debate on antitrust goals. Based on a
legal-sociological perspective it conceives competition as a form with social functions. Thus
competition is not a mere derivation of efficiency or consumer welfare but an autonomous goal
of antitrust which pervades cartel unilateral conduct and merger cases. According to Tobias
Werron this is a great piece of scholarship (...) that suggests an openness of mind and
independence of thought. Celso Campilongo writes: the publication of this work ought to be
celebrated. It is far from trivial or usual to reconstruct (...) a sociology of antitrust law.
