Die Schumpeter-Biografien von Thomas McCraw und Annette Schäfer reihen sich in zweierlei seinerzeitige Entwicklungen ein. Zum einen standen in den 2000er Jahren ökonomische Klassiker auf dem Buchmarkt hoch im Kurs. Speziell das Werk von Joseph Alois Schumpeter erlebte zum anderen gerade...

The dominance of model-building in modern economics is far from a new finding. Marcel Boumans intends to separate himself from previous analyses by pursuing a specific focus, namely the development of a «separate methodology of models». To achieve this goal he focusses on the contributions by...

Milène Wegmann sets herself the task to demonstrate the great influence exerted by the neoliberals (or ordoliberals) on the design and further development of European competition law after world war II. All in all the structure of her study is coherent and comprehensible. At the same time,...

John Mills does not attempt to conceal his «critical» view on the development of economics. On the contrary, he argues that it «is a discipline against which […] serious charges need to be laid» (p. 1). Thereby he means the failure to provide a «generally accepted, comprehensive theory»...

The Great Reversal is a pleasure to read because of its original arguments and thorough reasoning by a very able economist. Thomas Phillippon analyses the state of competition in the US and Europe, respectively, very convincingly. His main finding is that the intensity of competition has...

Ordoliberalism was undoubtedly a highly influential school of thought in the German-speaking economics profession and, perhaps even more so, in economic policy-making in postwar Germany. It has, however, always remained a local (or rather national) hero. Only in recent years, interest in...

The Profit Paradox by Jan Eeckhout has arguably been one of the most important and at the same time most heavily debated economics books in recent years. Therefore, The Profit Paradox can be highly recommended to anyone interested in the analysis of market power as well as the future development...

Populism and Antitrust deals with a topic which unfortunately has become very topical. That is the influence of populism on competition law and policy. Maciej Bernatt refers mainly to the developments in Hungary after the formation of the Fidesz government in 2010 and in Poland after the...

Mit dem Inkrafttreten der novellierten Fusionskontrollverodnung hat der bisher tiefgreifendste Reformprozess der EU-Fusionskontrolle am 1. Mai 2004 seinen (vorläufigen) Abschluss gefunden. Anders als in der Literatur vorherrschend geht es in diesem Beitrag um eine ökonomische Betrachtung der...