Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues that three major economic crises together with market globalisation have changed governments' perceptions of market competition, giving rise to a neo-liberal global phase.

Introduction
PART I
1. Perspectives on Antitrust
2. A Variety of Ideas on Competition
3. Antitrust: Ideas, Institutions and Change
PART II
4. The Evolution of American Antitrust Policies
5. Internalising Antitrust: The Evolution of Competition Policy in Europe and Japan
6. BRICs Competition Policy in a Globalising Economy
Conclusions

Eleonora Poli is Researcher at the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Italy, and a Research Fellow at the City Political Economy Research Centre (CityPerc). She holds a PhD in International Political Economy from the Department of International Politics at City University London, UK.