Protection of competition

The interest in the public sphere for the protection of competition arises precisely from the original lack in the Constitution of an ad hoc discipline of the matter. This lack stems from a historical heritage according to which competition had as its object exclusively private, not public, interests. This work deals precisely with defining how the discipline of competition has evolved in our system over the years. It starts from the most salient historical aspects and examines the normative, jurisprudential and doctrinal evolution of the phenomenon, without neglecting the references to foreign and community disciplines.