Discretion and public benefit in a regulatory agency : the Australian authorisation process /

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Author / Creator:Nagarajan, Vijaya, author.
Imprint:Acton, ACT, Australia : Australian National University E Press, [2013]
Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
Language:English
Series:Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397196
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ISBN:9781922144362
1922144363
9781922144355
1922144355
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
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Summary:This book explores the manner in which a variety of public benefits such as environmental protection and consumer safety have been accommodated through the authorisation process within competition law and policy in Australia.
Other form:Print version: Nagarajan, Vijaya. Discretion and public benefit in a regulatory agency 9781922144355
Standard no.:10.26530/OAPEN_459947
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This book explores the manner in which a variety of public benefits such as environmental protection and consumer safety have been accommodated through the authorisation process within competition law and policy in Australia. While the regulator's use of its discretion can be explained as a triumph of practice over theory, this book explores the potential for competition principles to be imbued by the wider discourses of democratic participation and human rights. In doing so it makes a significant contribution to the Australian competition policy as well as reconceptualising the way in which discretion is used by regulators.

... a very important and creative contribution to the literatures on both business regulation in general and Australian competition and consumer protection law in particular. It pays special attention to an everyday regulatory function that is often ignored in scholarship. And it is very important in challenging--on both empirical and normative policy oriented grounds--a narrowly economic approach to competition law, and proposing an alternative understanding and practice for the public benefit test in ACCC authorisations.
-- Professor Christine Parker

The data Vij Nagarajan has analysed is quite unique in its focus. It is a kind of data and analysis that has not been completed before in the international literature. It is well written, theoretically sophisticated and incisive in its policy analysis.
-- John Braithwaite

Physical Description:1 online resource (1 volume)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781922144362
1922144363
9781922144355
1922144355