Beschreibung:
Anti-competitive business cartels engaging in practices such as price fixing, market sharing, bid rigging and restrictions on output, are now subject to strong official censure and rigorous legal control in a large number of jurisdictions across the world. Cartel Criminality discusses these business cartels, why they come into existence and persist, why they are regarded as being so bad, and the objectives within the increasingly complex and multi-level phenomenon of legal control.
Preface. Part I Theory and Method: Probing the Pathology and Mythology of Business Collusion: Orientation; The phenomenon of cartelisation; The normative basis of regulation and sanctions: pathology and mythology revisited. Part II Narratives and Analysis: Tales of Anti-Cartel Enforcement as Criminological Testing: Data and method: historical narrative and analysis; Cartel biographies: six narratives of cartel prehistory, lifetime and after-life; Measuring impact: conceptual and methodological problems; Desistance, recalcitrance and cartelist after-life; Tales of cultural diversity - how to deal with the dancing giants? Postscript