The Unfree Market and the Law

On the Immorality of Making Capitalism Unbridled Again
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-97381-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values

This book examines how legal systems and mechanisms give shape to the capitalist economic system. In this regard, it focuses on the most important of these systems, such as monetary and financial law, company law, fiscality, contract and labour law. Further, the book provides a thorough analysis of the underlying ethical values of said legal systems and mechanisms. It also gives an overview of several potentially devastating related effects, such as poverty, the increasing polarisation between rich and poor, climate change, and mounting debts at both the public and private level. The book concludes by presenting proposals for change. Given its critical analysis of legal systems and mechanisms in connection with the value choices dictated by economic ideologies, the book will be of particular interest to legal and economic academics, researchers and students, but also to policymakers, and, more generally, to anyone with a genuine concern for how the socio-economic order will evolve.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byttebier, Koen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General background.- On some obvious capitalist mechanisms and how they evolved under the doctrines of economic liberalism and economic neo-liberalism.- On certain less obvious (neo-)liberal principles shaping capitalism.- Some further themes on the outlook of the capitalist world.- Looking for inspiration to escape the chains of the free market.- Final conclusions.