Competition Devices: how and in what sense does antitrust policy makes markets

Authors

  • Gustavo Onto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21669/tomo.v0i0.6709

Abstract

The Brazilian competition (defense) policy aims at guaranteeing competition in national markets by prohibiting certain business conducts and by reviewing corporate mergers and acquisitions. Based on an ethnographic work produced in the body responsi- ble for this policy, the Administrative Council for Economic De- fense – CADE –, this article demonstrates how and in what sense this form of government, understood as a device, produces and transforms markets by directing the actions of its participants. It points to three mechanisms by which this orientation occurs: (i) the definition of legal limits of economic practices; (ii) the mobi- lity and circulation of artifacts; and (iii) the pedagogy implicit in governmental action.

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Published

2017-06-29

How to Cite

Onto, G. (2017). Competition Devices: how and in what sense does antitrust policy makes markets. TOMO Review. https://doi.org/10.21669/tomo.v0i0.6709

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n. 30 (2017): jan./jun.

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