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Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: alternative possibilities

Alessandrini, Donatella (2016) Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: alternative possibilities. Routledge, London, 176 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-93674-4. E-ISBN 978-1-315-67665-4. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:50573)

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Abstract

This book examines the contemporary production of economic value in today’s financial economies. Much of the regulatory response to the global financial crisis has been based on the assumption that curbing the speculative ‘excesses’ of the financial sphere is a necessary and sufficient condition for restoring a healthy economic system, endowed with real values, as distinct from those produced by financial markets. How, though, can the ‘intrinsic’ value of goods and services produced in the sphere of the so-called real economy be disentangled from the ‘artificial’ value engineered within the financial sphere?

Examining current projects of international legal regulation, this book questions the regulation of the financial sphere insofar as its excesses are juxtaposed to some notion of economic normality. Given the problem of neatly distinguishing these domains – and so, more generally, between economy and society – it considers the limits of our current conceptualization of value production and measurement, with specific reference to arrangements in the areas of finance, trade and labour. Drawing on a range of innovative work in the social sciences, it further asks: what alternative arrangements might be able to affect, and indeed alter, the value-making processes that underlie our current international regulatory framework?

Item Type: Book
Uncontrolled keywords: trade regulation ; economics ; financial risk management
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Sarah Saines
Date Deposited: 22 Sep 2015 11:17 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 12:20 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/50573 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

University of Kent Author Information

Alessandrini, Donatella.

Creator's ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-3958
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