Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law

Edited by Ugo Mattei, University of California, Hastings, US, International University College, Collegio Carlo Alberto and University of Turin, Italy and John D. Haskell, Professor of Law, University of Manchester, UK

'Law creates and regulates our political and economic life. If the legal institutions of citizenship and political authority, property and contract, money and credit, or labor and capital were put together differently, our world might be more equal, productive, democratic, sustainable and just. This terrific collection explores how this might be done. Each essay puts law at the center of a story about political economy and asks how things might be otherwise. Original, broad-reaching and imaginative, these essays will change how you think about the world: what seemed natural and inevitable will seem open to rethinking and remaking. An excellent overview of law's role in contemporary political economy by some of the most creative thinkers in the legal academy today.'

• Contents:1. IntroductionJohn D. Haskell and Ugo MatteiPART I MONEY AND MARKETS2. Toward a Political Economy of Money Roy Kreitner3. The Market as a Legal Concept: Classical Liberalism, Modern Liberalism, Pragmatic Liberalism Justin Desautels-Stein4. The New Global Dis/Order in Central Banking and Public Finance Timothy A. Canova5. Neoliberalism, Debt and DisciplineTayyab Mahmud6. Free Trade and Comparative Advantage: A Study in Economic Sleight of Hand Vishaal Kishore7. Technology, Power and the Political Economy of Inequality Frederick Guy and Peter Skott8. Finance and the ‘Real’ Economy: Systemic Complexity, Complex Agencies Luigi Russi9. Financialization and the Non-Financial Corporate Sector Özgür Orhangazi10. Debt and Financial Stability Jan Toporowski11. The Law of Value and the Law Bill Bowring12. Less Markets: A Critical Analysis of Market Existence and Functioning Calixto Salomão FilhoPART II THE RELATIONS OF ORGANIZATION: INDUSTRY, LABOR AND THE STATE13. Beyond Corporate Governance: Why a New Approach to the Study of Corporate Law is Needed to Address Global Inequality and Economic Development Dan Danielsen14. The Job Guarantee, Full Employment and Human Rights L. Randall Wray15. Personal Responsibility for Systemic Inequality Martha McCluskey16. From the ‘Semi-Civilized State’ to the ‘Emerging Market’: Remarks on the International Legal History of the Semi-Periphery Umut Özsu17. From the Dutch East India Company to the Corporate Bill of Rights: Corporations and International Law Grietje Baars18. Mapping the Political Economy of Neoliberalism in the Arab World Adam Hanieh19. Ending Impunity? Eliding Political Economy in International Criminal Law Tor Krever20. The Political Economy of Court-Based Regulation Patrick Luff, 21. Law and Development: A History in Three Moments Arpita Gupta22. The Political Economy of Industrial Policy: After the Crisis, Back on the Agenda Antonio AndreoniPART III COMMODITIES, LAND AND RESOURCES23. The Empty Circularity of Regulatory Takings: The Legacy of a Legal Realist Critique for a 21st-Century Context Akbar Rasulov24. Property in Labor and the Limits of Contract Claire Mummé25. Property Issues in the Indigenous Historical Contexts of Republican Latin America Rodrigo Míguez 26. Indigenous Peoples’ Claims and Challenges Over Control of Property Ivana Isailović27. Early Soviet Property Law in Comparison with Western Legal TraditionsBoris N. Mamlyuk28. The Architecture of Commons Legal InstitutionsSaki Bailey29. Political Economy and Environmental Law: A Cost-Benefit AnalysisJaye Ellis30. The Propertization of Intellectual PropertyAlina Ng Boyte31. Property, Efficiency, the Commons, and TheftRamsi A. WoodcockIndex