Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law

Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition explores the implications of Asian forms of capitalism and their regulation of competition for the emerging global competition law regime. Expert contributors from a variety of backgrounds explore the topic through the lenses of formal law, soft law and transnational regulation, and make extensive comparisons with Euro-American and global models. Case studies include Japan, China and Vietnam, and thematic studies include examinations of competition law's relationship with other regulatory terrains such as public law, market culture, regulatory geography and transnational production networks.

Introduction and overview Michael W. Dowdle, John Gillespie and Imelda Maher; Part I. Asia, Asian Capitalism, and Global Competition Law: Conceptual Mappings: 1. The regulatory geography of market competition in Asia (and beyond): a preliminary mapping Michael W. Dowdle; 2. Asia and global law convergence David J. Gerber; Part II. The Political Economy of Global Competition Law: 3. The institutional structure of competition law Imelda Maher; 4. Cultural political economy of competitiveness, competition law, and competition policy in Asia Ngai-Ling Sum; 5. The complexities of competition and competitiveness: challenges for competition law and economic governance in variegated capitalism Bob Jessop; Part III. Competition Regulation in Representative Asian Countries: 6. Competition and competition law in Japan: between skepticism and embrace Simon Vande Walle; 7. State capitalism and the regulation of competition in China Wentong Zheng; 8. Managing competition in Socialist-transforming Asia: the case of Vietnam John Gillespie; Part IV. Asian Capitalism and Competition Regulation in Operation: Selected Issues: 9. Competition in the periphery: melamine milk adulteration as peripheral 'innovation' Michael W. Dowdle; 10. Competition law and the role of the state in East Asia Tony Prosser; Part V. Into the Future: Asian Capitalism and Competition Regulation as Dynamic Systems: 11. Globalizing competition in Asia: an evolutionary perspective Henry Wai-Chung Yeung; 12. Addressing the development deficit of competition policy: the role of economic networks Frederic C. Deyo; 13. Whither Asia? Whither capitalism? Whither global competition law? Michael W. Dowdle.

Michael W. Dowdle is an assistant professor on the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and a visiting professorial fellow at the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group of the Department of Business Law at Monash University, Victoria.
John Gillespie is the Director of the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group at Monash University, Victoria. His research and teaching interests include Asian comparative law, law and development theory, and regulatory theory.
Imelda Maher is the Sutherland Professor of European Law at the School of Law, University College Dublin. She has published extensively on competition law, where her distinctive contribution is to analyse competition law from a law and governance perspective.