Competition Law in the BRICS Countries

ISBN: 9789041138217 出版年：2012 页码：370 Kluwer Law International

In his essay on ‘Politics and the English Language’ George Orwell listed six rules meant to prevent most instances of poor writing. The first one was to: ‘never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print’. In short, Orwell disliked cliches. Fortunately for these reviewers, Orwell’s sixth rule allows one to ‘[b]reak any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous’. Therefore, this review will purposely resort to cliches, namely that: globalisation has been the most salient feature of competition law enforcement for the past two decades. In the words of Terry Calvani (himself a fitting example of the effects of globalisation in competition practitioners, having been both a Commissioner of the US Federal Trade Commission and a Member of the Board of the Irish Competition Authority), ‘today there are more than one hundred countries with competition law regimes [...]. Unquestionably, some of these enforcement agencies do little more than attend international conferences, but many have active enforcement agendas’.