The tools of law that shape capitalism : and how altering their use could give form to a more just society / Koen Byttebier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byttebier, K. (Koen), author.

Series:

Economic and financial law & policy (shifting insights & values) ; v. 3.

Economic and financial law & policy -- shifting insights & values, 2522-5251 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Law and economics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

"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."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction

Main legal building stones of the capitalist socio-economic order

Neoliberalism

Some major unanswered challenges of our times

Some thoughts on a monetary way out

Introducing a universal "care state" model

A new focus on man

General conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3030241815

9783030241810

OCLC:

1128186020