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- Uses historical analysis, constitutional economics, and complexity theory
- Furnishes positive and normative arguments for city subsidiarity as a constitutional principle
- Contemplates city subsidiarity as a constitutional principle, where cities would benefit from wider local autonomy
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Constitutional economics suggests an optimal limit to jurisdictional footprints (territories). This entails preference for political orders where sovereignty is shared between different cities rather states where capital cities dominate. The introduction of city subsidiarity as a constitutional principle holds the key to economic prosperity in a globalizing world.
Moreover, insights from complexity theory suggest subsidiarity is the only effective response to the ‘problem of scale.’ It is a fitness trait that prevents highly complex systems from collapsing. The nation-state is a highly complex system withinwhich cities function as ‘attractors.’ The collapse of such systems would ensue if there were strong coupling between attractors. Such coupling obtains under legal monism. Only subsidiarity can make the eventuality of collapse improbable. The emergent and self-organizing properties of subsidiarity entail a shift in policy emphasis towards cities with a wide margin of autonomy.
Keywords
- Secession
- Evolution of States
- Tinbergen’s gravity equation for trade
- federalism vis-à-vis unitary organization
- Federalsim Failings in New Zealand
- Federalsim Failings in Australia
- Constitutional Design
- Hypotaxis through Social Trust
- Hypotaxis and Economic Change
- Ecological crises
- Nexus between Hypotaxis and Sustainability
- Sovereign City and Hypotaxis
- Economic Wellbeing
- Cooley-Eaton-McQuillin
- Constitutional framework for Kurdistan
- A Jarlsburg World Order
Authors and Affiliations
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School of Law, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Benjamen Gussen
About the author
Benjamen Gussen is a constitutional jurist at the Swinburne School of Law. He was admitted to the legal profession in New Zealand in 2011, and in Australia in 2014. His main area of research is comparative constitutional law-and-economics. He is an expert on the principle of subsidiarity and its application in unitary and federal polities. Dr Gussen is the Vice President of the Australian Law and Economics Association. Prior to joining Swinburne, Dr Gussen taught at the University of Southern Queensland, the University of Auckland and the Auckland University of Technology. Before embarking on his academic career, Dr Gussen worked in government and industry in the United States, the Persian Gulf, and New Zealand.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Axial Shift
Book Subtitle: City Subsidiarity and the World System in the 21st Century
Authors: Benjamen Gussen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6950-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6949-0Published: 31 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6952-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6950-6Published: 17 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 493
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Law, Law and Economics, Political Theory