Vendredi 21 novembre, 14h-17h, Campus Condorcet, salle 4.023 du bâtiment recherche sud.
Jamee K. Moudud (Sarah Lawrence College) présentera son ouvrage publié chez Routledge :
Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire ?
Le séminaire peut être suivi en présentiel (Campus Condorcet, salle 4.023 du bâtiment recherche Sud) ou en ligne :
https://campus-condorcet.zoom.us/j/85080616595?pwd=ANCbiDH5A6kls4n2uPa2fXpshmHmaP.1
Résumé de l’ouvrage :
“Institutions matter” is a common refrain among all economists—including many who have proposed progressive alternatives to free market fundamentalism. However, this sentiment does not go far enough. 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. By arguing that society is a political community it challenges the private law versus public law or state versus markets distinction. Focusing on property, money and credit, constitutional law, and corporations this book argues that laissez-faire has never existed and that “state intervention versus de-regulation” and “market failures versus free markets” are false dichotomies. This book proposes the need to engage with legal-economic theory and history to understand what institutions are, what economic regulation means, law’s intrinsic connection to the economy, and the distribution of power relations within capitalism.
