Confucianism and Antitrust: China's Emerging Evolutionary Approach to Anti-Monopoly Law.

This article discusses the historical, cultural, and philosophical values that have helped mold modern China and its powerful and thriving economy, and examines how they have helped shape and influence China's current Anti-Monopoly Law, which has been in effect since 2008. China's Anti-Monopoly Law reveals China's continuing commitment to honoring and following its traditional Confucian ethics and morals in regulating behavioral and structural competition issues. Rather than following a western neoclassical economic approach, China is pursuing an evolutionary approach in its Anti-Monopoly Law that emphasizes Confucian norms of morality, ethics, fairness, and reciprocity, and the importance of economic diversity, variation and multiplicity. The article explains why continuing cries for China to "get in step" with western neoclassical economic theory are likely to fall on deaf ears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]