Research Handbook on Law and Political Economy

Edited by John D. Haskell, Professor of Law, University of Manchester, UK

‘A powerful set of essays beautifully curated and introduced by John Haskell. The volume manifests that LPE has come of age as a major intellectual and institutional movement. A must-read.’

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Global law and political economy 2John D. HaskellPART II COERCION AND FREEDOM2 Beyond personal responsibility: government support for the substantive human condition 16Martha T. McCluskey3 The dual nature of economic liberty 37Eric A. Scorsone4 Approaches to justice, from liberalism to algorithmic technocracy and climate justice 51S.M. Amadae5 Gender in law and political economy 75Miriam Bak-McKenna and Maj Grasten6 Ending impunity or entrenching impunity? International criminal law and the political economy of late capitalism 96Tor Krever7 Centring critical theories of subordination: LPE beyond the elision of the social 114Angela P. HarrisPART III MARKETS8 Globalization 137Bryant G. Garth9 Free trade and comparative advantage: a study in economic sleight of hand 149Vishaal Kishore10 On competition and the theories of value and distribution 163Jamee K. Moududviii Research handbook on law and political economy 11 From the ‘semi-civilized state’ to the ‘emerging market’: remarks on the international legal history of the semi-periphery 177Umut Özsu12 Mapping the political economy of neoliberalism in the Arab countries of the Middle East 191Adam Hanieh13 Antitrust law as a regulator of competition 209Sandeep VaheesanPART IV MONEY14 Toward a political economy of money 223Roy Kreitner15 Money is a thing: coins and bills in late medieval Europe 244Colin Drumm16 DIY: coding value in international investment law 260Andrea Leiter17 Neoliberalism, debt, and discipline 270Tayyab Mahmud18 Insurance financialisation: understanding the phenomenon from a risk perspective in the context of centre-periphery relationships 290Vitor Boaventura Xavier19 The political economy of taxes: global mobility, citizenship, and democratic inclusion 303Yvette Lind20 The new global dis/order in central banking and public finance 313Timothy A. CanovaPART V PROPERTY21 Property, efficiency, the commons, and theft 340Ramsi A. Woodcock22 The law and politics of indirect expropriation: the legacy of American legal realism for contemporary international investment law 370Akbar Rasulov23 Political economy and environmental law: a cost-benefit analysis 401Jaye Ellis24 An LPE approach to property 420Lua Kamál YuilleContents ix 25 Social data’s role in law and political economy 435Salomé Viljoen26 The political economy of food 445Andrea Freeman27 Property in labour and the limits of contract 463Claire MumméPART VI WORK28 The job guarantee, full employment and human rights 485L. Randall Wray29 Beyond corporate governance: why a new approach to the study of corporate law is needed to address global inequality and economic development 505Dan Danielsen30 From the Dutch East India Company to the Corporate Bill of Rights: corporations and international law 515Grietje (River) Baars31 Taming the Cheshire Cat: on the governance of (transnational) corporations 534Maha Rafi Atal and Jeroen Veldman32 Labour shortages, automation and technological adoption in post-Brexit UK’s logistics industry 545Lea Sitkin33 LPE and workplace organization 562Jedidiah KronckeIndex 577