The Goals of Competition Law, Economic Welfare, and Ideology
I was invited to the University of Tokyo’s KAKENHI (A) project, “Research on the Interaction of Law and Politics over the ‘Public’ in the Digital Age,” and gave a presentation titled “The Goals of Competition Law, Economic Welfare, and Ideology,” based on the CPRC discussion paper I am writing.
Many people — scholars who always look after me, colleagues, and drinking buddies — took the trouble to attend despite what must be very busy schedules. I received valuable comments from scholars in a truly wide range of fields and learned a great deal. Thank you.
Precisely because the theme and topics are broad, the discussion comes alive even at an interdisciplinary meeting, but honestly, I reflected that I do not yet have the ability to respond properly to all of it. Still, I never dreamed I would one day discuss Kaplow’s articles with scholars of administrative law and commercial law, and it was great fun.
A complete aside: the University of Tokyo’s campus is vast even though it is in the middle of the city, and I now understand a little how the characters in Kingdom feel when they look at a huge castle town and say, “So this is the power of Qin…”
This post was translated from the Japanese original.