As the new semester approaches I was wondering whether I should assign a reading from what is one of the first books comparatively exploring competition law and the one doing so from the legal and economic perspectives– namely ‘Cartels and Trusts’ by Dr Roman Piotrowski— published in London in 1933.
In this book Piotrowski critically analysed history and development of anticompetitive agreements and their treatment in a range of jurisdictions. He has successfully challenged a false notion promoted by some scholars that such arrangements were a new phenomenon.
The book was an outcome of a three year long project investigating cartels and it does provide copious references to sources in English, German, French, Italian, Latin and Greek (hence, something few scholars would be able to do!).