| The Tools of Law That Shape Capitalism: And How Altering Their Use Could Give Form to a More Just Society 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Byttebier, Koen (Author) |
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ISBN: 303024184X ISBN-13: 9783030241841 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Law | International - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics - Law | Commercial - General |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.80 lbs) 239 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 building blocks of the prevailing capitalist socio-economic system are simple, the most important being: (1) money; (2) the company form and (3) (neo)liberal state organization aimed at making markets as free as possible for the entrepreneurial sector. Having been used to create the socio-economic order over 2-3 centuries, the legal systems that helped shape capitalist societies around the globe have also contributed to a variety of fundamental problems that remain unaddressed by the capitalist system itself, such as ever-mounting public and private debt, pollution and climate change, an increasing polarization between rich and poor and a globally unjust fiscal order. By proposing alternative uses for the tools of law that shape capitalism, the book also makes proposals for dealing with these matters. |
