A “Statute of the Firm” as an antitrust law during the Seventies. Guido Carli’s chairmanship of the Italian Industrial Association (Confindustria)

Alessandro Dafano

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Abstract: This paper aims to highlight a newsworthy initiative built up by the Italian Industrial Association which tried to give the Italian economy a forerunner “competition law”; however, in the Seventies Italy proved incapable of tying itself with rules of conduct, which were substituted, empowering an “external constraint”. We will firstly provide an economic and historical-institutional framework of that period; we will then describe the making and the contents of the “Statute of the Firm”, together with a critical analysis on it; finally, we will report some critics around the debate on this proposal, and why the Statute was rejected by entrepreneurs themselves.

Keywords: competition; Guido Carli; Confindustria; role of the firm; pluralism; innovation; regulation; economic planning. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B21 N44 N84 P11 P12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-06
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