Sixty Years of EU State Aid Law and Policy: Analysis and Assessment' provides a critical review of State aid, from its evolution to the practical implementation of current rules. If an EU industrial policy can be said to exist, its contours may be found in the complex and evolving concept of...

"With the Chinese government planning a comprehensive and detailed reform of regulatory law, the European experience is likely to contribute significantly. This timely book analyses comparative Chinese and EU regulatory reform from a law and economics perspective."--

Introduction -- The evolution of the economic concept of competition -- Doctrinal foundations of competition law -- The normative value of competition -- The mechanics of balancing -- The legal thoretical aspects of competition -- Practical conclusions

Prologue : The perils of sleepwalking -- Contextualizing debt : history, morality, and the triple structural dimension -- The nature of sovereign creditworthiness : hierarchy, sovereignty, and responsibility -- Moralizing credit : bad debt, good debt, and the troubled conscience -- pt. I. Debt...