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- Provides a thorough and critical analysis of the legal techniques that shape the prevailing socio-economic order
- Gives an inventory of the most important problems caused by the prevailing socio-economic system and directly links these to the way this system is organized legally
- Looks for solutions and alternatives, both on the level of the organization of the monetary and the financial system, and the way states function
Part of the book series: Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values (EFLP, volume 3)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
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 thatshape capitalism, the book also makes proposals for dealing with these matters.
Authors and Affiliations
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Center for Economic Law and Governance, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Koen Byttebier
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Tools of Law that Shape Capitalism
Book Subtitle: And How Altering Their Use Could Give Form to a More Just Society
Authors: Koen Byttebier
Series Title: Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting Insights & Values
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24182-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24181-0Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24184-1Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24182-7Published: 04 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-5243
Series E-ISSN: 2522-5251
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 239
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Economic Law, Trade Law, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Law and Economics, Financial Law/Fiscal Law, Commercial Law