1st Edition
The Economics and Law of Public Procurement New Global Scenarios
Public procurement makes up a significant part of national economies: 10-25% of gross domestic product (GDP), depending on the country. Appropriate laws and regulations are an essential tool to direct the action of procurers toward the public good and avoid corruption and misallocation of resources, while at the same time sustaining progress and social goals. The original approach of this book combines juridical, economic and technical expertise to find common terrain and a common language in order to debate the specific issues that affect Public Administrations across the world that need advancing and modernizing. The book features contributions across four specific themes of interest to the procurer’s day to day job in modern public purchasing organizations: preferences and political economy in public procurement; climate change; defence procurement and human rights in public procurement. The aim is to let the new emerging trade-offs between competition and sustainability emerge, highlighting at the same time the possible synergies between the relevant policy objectives. The book takes into account sectoral specificities, reinforced by recent global events such as wars, natural disasters, and populism. The unique format features in each section an interdisciplinary debate between two experts across different disciplines who deliberate and engage one another so as to improve the mutual understanding across disciplines, followed by two additional contributions. The book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and policymakers worldwide.
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List of contributors
Introduction
PART I
Human rights in public procurement
1 Colloquium: Annamaria La Chimia and Daniel Morris
2 Claire Methven O’Brien and Roberto Caranta: Should EU public procurement law integrate sustainability due diligence requirements? EU institutions’ procurement as a case study
3 Kristina Vasileva Socially Responsible Public Procurement: How To Transform Will Into Reality
PART II
Climate change in public procurement
4 Colloquium: Neli Garbuzanova and Sofia Lundberg
5 Valentina Bianchini: Using Public Procurement to build Supply Chains resilience to clima change
6 Orsolya Diófási-Kovács, Anna Freund: Sustainable Public Procurement of School Meals in Europe
PART III
Preferences and political economy in public procurement
7 Colloquium: Geo Quinot and Benjamin Rosa
8 Jean Heilman Grier: Preferences and unilateral measures in public procurement
9 Andrea Truppo: Defence procurement and industrial policy: from domestic to European procurement in a global market
PART IV
Defence procurement
10 Colloquium: Keith F. Snider and Martin Trybus
11 Andreas H. Glas, Michael Eßig: Zeitenwende” (new era) for Defence Procurement: The role of speed and symbiotic collaboration by investigating combination versus separation in defence supply chains
12 Daniel E. Schoeni, Christopher R. Yukins: Lessons from the United States’ Articles of Confederation
PART V
Global and local perspectives to public procurement
13 Enzo de Laurentiis: The future of procurement
14 Stefano Casu, Giovanni Gaspa, Susanna Maxia, Vincenzo Frencesco Perra: How public performances can be enhanced by linking innovation policies to ordinary procurement: Sardinian case
Index
Biography
Annalisa Castelli is Associate Professor of Public Economics at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.
Gustavo Piga is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.
Tünde Tátrai is Professor of Economics at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary.
