Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism

Auteur

Jamee K. Moudud (PhD) is a Professor of Economics at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. He is on the Board of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy (APPEAL), Co-Founder and Steering Committee Member of the Law and Political Economy Collective (LPE-C) and is also a Co-Founder of the Journal of Law and Political Economy.

Texte du rabat

"Institutions matter", is a common refrain amongst all economists - This book draws principally on the original institutional economics and American legal realist traditions to propose a theory of legal institutionalism or institutional political economy.

Résumé
Institutions matter, is a common refrain amongst all economists This book draws principally on the original institutional economics and American legal realist traditions to propose a theory of legal institutionalism or institutional political economy.

Contenu

1. Laissez Faire: The Fruitless Pursuit of a Chimera 2. Messiness Matters: The Analytical Basis of the Legal-Economic Nexus 3. Visible Hands and Corporations: Beyond the Public versus Private Separation 4. Constitutional Vulnerability, the Struggle for Human Dignity, And Monetary Sovereignty 5. Variants of Monetary Hardwiring: Money as a Governance Institution 6. Liberalism's Dark Side 7. Conclusion: Reconstructing Economics or Toward a Political Political Economy Index