The Tools of Law that Shape Capitalism And How Altering Their Use Co
The book provides a critical analysis of the legal mechanisms that help shape the capitalist system, and also makes proposals for deploying these tools in a different manner. Although often disguised in difficult legal jargon, in reality the main legal bu
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Koen Byttebier
The Tools of Law that Shape Capitalism And How Altering Their Use Could Give Form to a More Just Society
Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values Volume 3
Series Editors Koen Byttebier Brussels, Belgium Kim van der Borght Brussels, Belgium
This book series focuses on presenting critical legal and interdisciplinary research regarding the tools and instruments of free-market-driven societies and their economies. For the last few decades, the world markets have been in turmoil, to a large extent is a result of value and policy choices which have been made since the late middle ages. As a result, on a global scale, economies and the legal systems giving form to them, have mainly if not exclusively become based on selfishness and greed, a reality which is moreover explicitly propagated by the theories of economic neo-liberalism. It has nevertheless become clear in the recent past that said free market tools and mechanisms – such as private money creation by banks, next to the way huge corporations in general function and determine the outcome of economic processes – result in disastrous consequences, especially when remaining uncorrected by law and when not being submitted to clear public policy intervention measures. Despite the evidence and growing understanding of the causes and consequences of neoliberal policy, few alternatives for the capitalist model as currently implemented, have so far been proposed. In order to meet these concerns, this book series aims at offering an outlet for various forms of scientific research output, both monographs and edited collections. The objective of every book of the series will hereby be to look critically at the legal methods and mechanisms shaping the free markets, and even to suggest alternatives for these. Although the book series is initiated by legal scholars, it nevertheless aims to be truly multi- and interdisciplinary. The books series therefor welcomes and will incorporate all relevant disciplines, including law, economics, philosophy, ethics, religion, psychology, sociology, anthropology etc.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15643
Koen Byttebier
The Tools of Law that Shape Capitalism And How Altering Their Use Could Give Form to a More Just Society
Koen Byttebier Center for Economic Law and Governance Free University of Brussels Brussels, Belgium
ISSN 2522-5243 ISSN 2522-5251 (electronic) Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values ISBN 978-3-030-24181-0 ISBN 978-3-030-24182-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24182-7 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissim
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