Brian Shaev is University Lecturer at the Institute for History at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Germany.

• 1. Introduction, Brian Shaev2. Social Democracy and the Cartel-Question: The Case of the German SPD, Harm Schröter3. Swedish Social Democracy and Cartels, 1911-1953, Birgit Karlsson4. The German Trade Union Confederation and the Cartel Policy of the Early European Communities, Severin Cramm5. “The Economy is our Destiny”: Socialists and the Birth of European Competition Law, 1950-1962, Brian Shaev6. Ordering through Competition? Pieter VerLoren van Themaat and Social-Democratic Thinking about Competition in the early postwar Netherlands (1940s-1960s), Karen van Leeuwen7. Social Democracy and the Foundations of European Competition Policy and Law (1950-1973), Sigfrido M. Ramírez Pérez8. Finnish Social Democrats and Competition Policy: From the first “Cartel Law” to the Application of EU Membership, Susanna Fellman9. European Social Democracy, Community Competition Law and Industrial Policy during the Crisis of the 1970’s and 1980’s, Dimitri Zurstrassen9. The Impossible Social Democratic Competition Policy, 1985-2000, Laurent Warlouzet10. Rules and Exceptions in the Recent History of Competition Law 2003-2017: Technocracy or Scope for a Social Democratic Perspective? Wolf Sauter11. A Social Democratic Dilemma: Swedish Competition Policy in the 21st Century, John Lapidus12. Conclusion, Vera Ŝcepanović and Brian Shaev