The Unfree Market and the Law On the Immorality of Making Capitalism Unbridled Again /

• Main Author: Byttebier, Koen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Economic and Financial Law & Policy - Shifting Insights & Values, 2
• Subjects: International law.; Trade.; Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Business ethics.; Economic policy.; Social justice.; Human rights.; Public finance.; International Economic Law, Trade Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Business Ethics.; Economic Policy.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.; Financial Law/Fiscal Law.

This book examines how legal systems and mechanisms give shape to the capitalist economic system. In this regard, it focuses on the most important of these systems, such as monetary and financial law, company law, fiscality, contract and labour law. Further, the book provides a thorough analysis of...

Table of Contents:

• General background
• On some obvious capitalist mechanisms and how they evolved under the doctrines of economic liberalism and economic neo-liberalism
• On certain less obvious (neo-)liberal principles shaping capitalism
• Some further themes on the outlook of the capitalist world
• Looking for inspiration to escape the chains of the free market
• Final conclusions.