Law and Political Economy

Abstract

'Law and Political Economy' surveys recent approaches to the study of phenomena at the intersection of law, politics and the economy. These take an interdisciplinary perspective, viewing markets as fields of social power that are not spontaneous but created and reproduced in the meeting of legal norms, political action and economic activity. Through regulating economic relationships, the politico-legal order constitutes and reconstitutes the power relations that make up society. This, in turn, is driven by the formation of class, sectoral and geopolitical interests, as well as ideological convictions, which harness political and legal authority. We present these inter-related processes through exploring contemporary debates on inequality, inter-personal market relations, the relation between the state and market, and the effects of economic integration and globalisation on democracy and political selfdetermination.

Arquitetura de mercados como processo social:

“…Isso esteve ligado ao processo de globalização, dizem os autores, no qual organizações internacionais, como o FMI, o Banco Mundial, as Nações Unidas, entre outras, têm construído "uma arquitetura financeira global, tendo o direito como sua principal fundação" (2007, p. 1136; 2009, p. 20). Essa empreitada global vem repercutindo em diversas áreas jurídicas nacionais, de modo que não se pode compreender as mudanças do direito sem referência às interações entre a produção jurídica doméstica e global (Wilkinson & Lokdan, 2018).…”

Economic Law: Anatomy and Crisis

“…The recent resurgence of interest in law's connections with political economy under the rubric of LPE (Harris and Varellas 2020;Kampourakis 2021;Mutua 2021;Britton-Purdy et al 2020;Grewal and Purdy 2014;Wilkinson and Lokdam 2018) creates audacious conditions for critique of the current crisis. Ambitious, perhaps overly so, in its explanatory and conceptualizing aspirations, LPE emerges at an opportune moment.…”