Book Review: La Libre Concurrence

• Author: Corwin D. Edwards
• Published date: 01 December 1977
• Date: 01 December 1977
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0003603X7702200413
• Subject Matter: Book Reviews

Bernard

Clement,

La

Libre

ConCHrrence,

Presses

Universi-

taire

de

France

(1977), 125 pp.

Tn

this small hook, a

former

member of the

Antitrust

Bul-

letin's foreign advisorv board briefly summarizes the

nature

of restrictive business practices

and

methods of coping with

them,

Most

interesting

for American

readers

will be M. Cle-

ment's acconnt of the policy expressed in Article 59 of the

French

Price

Law, which constitutes

about

two-fifths of the

hook. These pages

interpret

key

phrases

of the

French

stat-

ute, summarize the evolution of action by the

French

com-

mission and applications of the law to

major

distributive

practices,

appraise

inadequacies in policy,

and

discuss the

relation between competition policy

and

other aspects of

French

consumer protection. M. Clement's concise

summary

of the competition policy of the

EEC,

which occnpies about

one-fifth of the book, is also interesting,

particularly

in

its

discussion of gaps in

that

policy.

CORWIN

D. EDWARDS

Professor

Emeritus

University

of

Oregon

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