21 - Conclusion

Summary

As the concluding chapter of this volume, this chapter provides an overview of the unifying themes and challenges identified across the contributions within the volume, with a particular focus on the country studies. The chapter demonstrates that in all the country studies there is, to one degree of another, conflict over the boundary lines of competition and labour regulation, and latent conflict between their underlying objectives and regulatory approaches. However resolution of this conflict varies considerably across the jurisdictions studied, and the chapter draws out the mechanisms used both to manage the conflict, and to regulate forms of economic co-ordination within those jurisdictions.