I - ANTITRUST GOALS AND COMPETITION Three snapshots of the "Antitrust
Goals" debate Antitrust goals in the origins of antitrust A "paradox", a
"windy city" and a meaning of "competition" A contemporary debate Antitrust
and competition in Brazilian legal discourse Is there an antitrust
dogmatics? Three challenges Goals and competition in Brazilian antitrust
doctrine. Goals and competition in CADE's case law "External" sources
Wealth maximization: from political philosophy to economic analysis
Scarcity: from economic analysis to law and economics Competition: from law
and economics to law and society II - COMPETITION AS A SOCIAL FORM A
concurrent discourse about competition Classics of political economy and
pioneers of a sociology of competition The 1940s: one "missing link" and
two influential works The last forty years: sociological approaches to
economics Competition in the Brazilian social thought Since colonial times?
monopolies and the "other side" The phenomenon of competition: a "myth" in
the tropics? Social forms in Brazilian self-descriptions Functional method
and triadic competition Causality, functional approach and systems
theory From the environment's structure to the multivalued function Triadic
competition, indirect audience and the Brazilian mirror III - BRINGING
COMPETITION TO ANTITRUST Three cases: bread, hospital and taxes Collusion
and triadic competition Mergers and intermediates Exclusionary conduct and
the state-third Theoretical implications For antitrust: protecting
competitive behavior beyond psychology For legal doctrine: producing
socially adequate differences For legal sociology: the laughing third in
nobody's land
