This book analyses the EU’s current interpretation of competition and its effects on the implementation of political initiatives in the single market, while sketching out a possible solution based on a new interpretation of competition on the basis of the problems identified in theory and...

"This introductory chapter sets out the conceptual and empirical background for the book as well as the questions it addresses. The discussion suggests that despite many years of attempted reform and undoubted economic and social progress, Latin America has failed to close the income and...