New Releases by Peter Behrens

**Arrêt de commercialisation*** Billy Lange naît en 1909 sur l’île de Wight, où son père est skipper pour le compte d’un riche baron juif allemand. Enfant, il est fasciné par la fille du baron, l’insaisissable Karin von Weinbrenner. Après la Première Guerre mondiale qui contraint la famille Lange à émigrer, le hasard réunit de nouveau Billy et Karin sur la propriété du baron, près de Francfort. Dès lors, au fil des ans, tandis que la société perd ses repères moraux et que l’Allemagne marche vers le second conflit mondial, ils se découvrent des passions communes: le jazz, la vitesse, un tenace rêve d’évasion... Et, face à la montée du nazisme, aux traitements infligés au baron et à son entourage, les deux jeunes gens sont taraudés par une même question: faut-il rester ou se résoudre à fuir? Entrelaçant les souvenirs de Billy – son enfance anglaise, l’emprisonnement de son père soupçonné d’espionnage, le refuge dans une Irlande secouée par l’IRA, la fuite en Allemagne, l’entre-deux-guerres où se mêlent insouciance et signes annonciateurs d’un nouvel ordre des choses –, Peter Behrens offre un éclairage subtil et une fine compréhension de la «Grande Histoire». Brillamment construit, profondément émouvant, Les insouciants est une histoire d’amour, une épopée historique et une réflexion lucide sur la violence et la chute de l’Europe du xxe siècle. Un roman magistral.

A devastating novel of war, love, and escape from the award-winning author of The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens During childhood summers on the sunstruck Isle of Wight in the years before the First World War, Billy is entranced by Karin, the elusive daughter of a German-Jewish industrialist. Reunited on a Frankfurt estate in that war’s hungry aftermath, Karin and Billy become fascinated with tribal rituals found in the Wild West stories of Karl May, whose Winnetou tales are among the most popular books published in Germany. Coming of age in Frankfurt and Berlin, Karin and Billy share a passion for speed, jazz, and nightclubs. They also share a fantasy of escape—from darkening Germany, from history—to El Llano Estacado, the high plains of Texas and New Mexico, vividly reimagined in May’s fiction. Intriguing characters braid this intricate and harrowing story together, from golden Edwardian summers to London under Zeppelin attack, Ireland on the brink of its War of Independence, and Germany collapsing into the Hitler era. As a society loses its civic and moral bearings, a childhood friendship deepens into a love affair with extraordinarily high stakes. Brilliantly conceived and elegantly written, Carry Me is an epic for grown-ups, an unusual love story, and a lucid meditation on Europe’s violent twentieth century.

This paper explores the impact of ordoliberal thinking on the drafting of the prohibition of "abuse" of a dominant position in the market that was included in the competition rules of the Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community as well as on its interpretation by the Commission and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Firstly, it is shown that the ordoliberal school must not be regarded as a set of ideas frozen in its formative period of 1933 to 1950 or 1957 when the "Freiburg School" was established but rather as an approach that has been dynamically developed and refined over the last 75 years (i.e. over four generations of ordoliberals) up to the present day by integrating important new insights without, however, giving up its core tenets and convictions. Secondly, it is shown on the basis of the preparatory work which lead in the 1950ies to the Rome Treaty that the adoption of the concept of "abuse" for the control of dominant undertakings was due to the strong influence of the German negotiating team that consisted of (in the meantime second generation) ordoliberals. Thirdly, it is explained how ordoliberal thinking about the "system of undistorted competition" and the protection of "residual competition against exclusionary practices" has influenced the application of the "abuse" concept in the jurisprudence of the Commission and the CJEU from the Continental Can case to the recent Intel case. This approach has come under attack from welfare-economic approaches which emphasize efficiency instead of competition and which have accused the ordoliberal approach of formalism, lack of sufficient economic analysis, preoccupation with fairness, protection of competitors instead of competition, obsession with interventionist regulation etc. This paper demonstrates that all of these characterizations are based on fundamental misunderstandings of what ordoliberal thinking originally meant and what it stands for today.

Tout commence en 1887 au fond de l''arrière-pays canadien : à la disparition de son père, le jeune Joe O''Brien, brusquement chef de famille, met tout en oeuvre pour assurer la subsistance des siens. Dur à la tâche, brillant, il comprend vite que rester enterré dans le Pontiac ne lui suffira jamais. Après la mort de leur mère, il organise avec l''aide d''un vieux jésuite le départ de la fratrie pour une nouvelle vie – les filles au couvent, un frère au séminaire, l''autre en Californie et Joe à l''assaut du continent ! Sa rencontre avec l''indépendante Iseult Wilkins donne subitement un sens à sa quête de réussite : de Venice Beach à Montréal en passant par la Colombie-Britannique, Joe ne cessera dès lors d''oeuvrer à l''établissement de son clan. Parcourant deux guerres mondiales, les années folles, la crise de 1929, le second après-guerre, Les O''Brien est tout à la fois la biographie d''un homme exceptionnel, d''un mariage, d''une famille, et l''histoire extrêmement bien documentée d''un siècle, de l''évolution des mentalités à travers les générations qui s''entrechoquent... Avec un talent de conteur exceptionnel, Peter Behrens déploie une épopée moderne dans la tradition du grand roman américain.

This paper explores the origin and development of the "consumer choice" paradigm as the core concept of German ordoliberal thought which has had a strong impact on EU competition policy and law. Outside Germany, ordoliberal thought is often identified exclusively with the learning of the original "Freiburg School" which represents the formative period of German ordoliberalism after the Second World War. Major developments since then have remained largely unrecognized. This paper sets out the important insights that have markedly changed some of the basic concepts of the "Freiburg School" so as to bring ordoliberalism into line with modern economic learning. The core tenets, however, remain: the crucial role attributed to consumers'' choice as the driving force behind producers'' rivalry, the dependence of consumers'' freedom of choice upon an open market structure, efficiency (consumer welfare) as the result of competition rather than of an individual entrepreneurial market strategy. The core elements of this approach are traced back to classical liberalism and it is shown how they have been enriched and developed beyond the "Freiburg School" toward the contemporary version of ordoliberalism. This approach is still reflected and should continue to be reflected by the jurisprudence of the ECJ, because it avoids the kind of consumer welfare (or consumer harm) fallacy by which the more economic approach risks to be caught.

From Peter Behrens, one of our most beloved storytellers and the author of the bestselling and award-winning novels The Law of Dreams and The O’Briens, comes a spectacular collection of riveting stories about growing up and growing older, falling in and out of love, and finding ourselves and losing each other. Moving from the magisterial streets of Montreal to the cramped spaces of New York City to the wide open plains of the west, these stories bring their settings magically alive, and within them offer us an incredible array of brilliantly imagined, richly drawn characters. If you liked Peter Behrens’ sweeping family sagas, then you will love this collection, full of the same ambition, heartache, and wisdom that have made him an essential voice of our times.

Under the regime of Regulation 1/2003 on the implementation of the rules of competition laid down in Articles 101 and 102 TFEU undertakings are obliged to take care by themselves of their compliance with the competition rules. For practical purposes this is also true when it comes to the rules applicable to the the control of concentrations under Regulation 139/2004. In order to facilitate the task of undertakings, which has become even more difficult according to the "more economic approach" to competition law, the Commission has published a number of guidelines which are setting out the relevant criteria applied by the Commission itself. A closer look reveals, however, that the criteria defined in the various guidelines are far from reflecting a coherent, precise and consistent approach of the Commission. At least four distinct legal tests may be identified, such as a "consumer harm"-test, a "negative market effects"-test, a "market power"-test and a "competitive process"-test. This paper analyses the various guidelines in order to demonstrate how these different approaches are embedded in their wording. The unavoidable conclusion is that undertakings get much less guidance from the guidelines than they would be justified to expect. This is all the more deplorable, because the European cours'' jurisdprudence continues to follow an approach which is considerably different from the Commission''s.

An unforgettable saga of love, loss, and exhilarating change spanning half a century in the lives of a restless family, from the author of the acclaimed novel The Law of Dreams. The O’Briens is a family story unlike any told before, a tale that pours straight from the heart of a splendid, tragic, ambitious clan. In Joe O’Brien—grandson of a potato-famine emigrant, and a backwoods boy, railroad magnate, patriarch, brooding soul—Peter Behrens gives us a fiercely compelling man who exchanges isolation and poverty in the Canadian wilds for a share in the dazzling riches and consuming sorrows of the twentieth century. When Joe meets Iseult Wilkins in Venice, California, the story of their courtship—told in Behrens’s gorgeous, honed style—becomes the first movement in a symphony of the generations. Husband and wife, brothers, sisters-in-law, children and grandchildren, the O’Briens engage unselfconsciously with their century, and we experience their times not as historical tableaux but as lives passionately lived. At the heart of this clan—at the heart of the novel—is mystery and madness grounded in the history of Irish sorrow. The O’Briens is the story of a man, a marriage, and a family, told with epic precision and wondrous imagination.

Irlanda, 1846. Los señores de la finca donde trabajan los O’Brien necesitan más dinero. Y no es el cultivo de la tierra lo que deja ganancias, sino la carne, como afirma el representante del heredero de las tierras. No hay que engordar a la gente, sino al

" Sortir, marcher. Ainsi en va-t-il dans les rêves. C''est cela la loi des rêves : rester en mouvement. ". En 1846, l''Irlande est frappée par l''épidémie de mildiou. Les récoltes de pommes de terre sont ruinées et la famille de Fergus, refusant l''expulsion, subit la famine. Demeuré seul, Fergus comprend que, conformément à " la loi des rêves ", son seul espoir de survie est de quitter cette terre et d''aller de l''avant. Commence alors un périple semé d''embûches, de rencontres et d''aventures aussi cocasses que dramatiques, au cours duquel il croisera notamment une troupe d''enfants errants avant de rencontrer sa compagne, Molly, dont il devra apprendre à se méfier... Son chemin le conduira de Dublin à Liverpool où il embarquera pour le Québec. Véritable roman initiatique, La Loi des rêves est un récit des origines de l''Amérique. Déployant un talent de narration hors du commun, Peter Behrens questionne l''exil et met en lumière l''Histoire et le peuplement du continent Américain

Winner of the Governor General''s Award for Fiction. Peter Behrens''s bestselling novel is gorgeously written, Homeric in scope, and haunting in its depiction of a young man''s perilous journey from innocence to experience.The Law of Dreams follows Fergus O''Brien from Ireland to Liverpool and Wales during the Great Potato Famine of 1847, and then beyond — to a harrowing Atlantic crossing to Montreal. On the way, Fergus loses his family, discovers a teeming world beyond the hill farm where he was born, and experiences three great loves.

Contains papers from a conference held in Frauenchiemsee, Upper Bavaria, June 2002.

Die Leser dieses Buches können erwarten, mit den wesentlichen Problemen des Globalisierungsprozesses für Entwicklungsländer vertraut gemacht zu werden. Der Prozeß der Globalisierung von Produktion, Dienstleistungen und Finanzkapital bringt nicht nur Chancen, sondern auch erhebliche Risiken für Entwicklungsländer mit sich. Er kann Aufholprozesse begünstigen, aber auch ein weiteres Zurückfallen verursachen. Für einen Erfolg sind viele Faktoren entscheidend. Die heimische Wirtschaftspolitik muß durch Herstellung stabiler Rahmenbedingungen sowie finanz- und währungspolitische Solidität günstige Voraussetzungen für eine erfolgreiche Teilnahme am Globalisierungsprozeß schaffen. Aber auch die Rahmendaten der internationalen Handelsordnung müssen den Kriterien der Stabilität und Fairneß gegenüber den zumeist machtlosen Entwicklungsländern genügen. Die Instabilität des äußeren Ordnungsrahmens kann sich in unbeeinflußbaren Schocks auf die heimische Volkswirtschaft niederschlagen. So wird am Beispiel der jüngsten Mexiko-Krise deutlich, daß einerseits viele Entwicklungsländer heute einen erheblich verbesserten Zugang zu den internationalen Finanzmärkten haben, andererseits aber die Verletzlichkeit ihrer Wirtschaft dadurch zugenommen hat. Die Liberalisierung der Kapital- und Gütermärkte sollte in Entwicklungsländern nicht losgelöst voneinander vollzogen werden. Geschieht dies dennoch und eilt die Liberalisierung des finanzwirtschaftlichen Sektors zu stark voraus, wirken sich internationale finanzwirtschaftliche Krisenerscheinungen ungleich stärker auf den realwirtschaftlichen Sektor aus. Insgesamt stehen die Chancen für erfolgreiche Aufholprozesse aber nicht schlecht. Auch wenn die Entwicklungsländer zeitweise nur als »verlängerte Werkbänke« mit wenig Humankapital am Weltmarkt teilnehmen, muß dies kein Dauerschicksal sein, wenn die Wirtschaftspolitik entwicklungsfreundlich bleibt und das Bildungssystem zügig ausgebaut wird. Die Globalisierung umfaßt auch völlig neuartige Märkte,