Redefining the market-state relationship : responses to the financial crisis and the future of regulation /

This book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the role of law in modern capitalism in the context of financial crisis. In this work, the reader will find a discussion of key issues relevant to the crisis that have occupied the pages of the financial press since 2007 including an assessment of th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Glinavos, Ioannis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
Series:Routledge research in finance and banking law
Subjects:
Description
Summary:This book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the role of law in modern capitalism in the context of financial crisis. In this work, the reader will find a discussion of key issues relevant to the crisis that have occupied the pages of the financial press since 2007 including an assessment of the meltdown of the sub-prime mortgage market, the credit crunch, the European debt crisis and the turmoil in Greece, plus a series of theoretical contributions that are aimed to challenge perceptions of the market-state relationship and the place of law within it. The book includes a methodological defence of the state-market dichotomy, a critique of the tenets of neoclassical economics, and an evaluation of what the financial crisis heralds for the future of the political economy of western democracies. Ioannis Glinavos argues that it is a mistake to associate markets with freedom and states with oppression, and suggests that more choice for consumers can -and does- mean less choice for citizens. The book suggests that a new social contract is needed to ensure the survival of both capitalism and democracy. In contributing a unique, legal perspective to the underlying dynamics of the financial crisis, this book will be valuable to scholars and students of regulation, financial markets and economic development --
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 181 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 164-175) and index
ISBN:0203718798
0415691281
1136014721
1299963226
9780203718797
9780415691284
9781136014727
9781299963221