1st Edition
Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation Alternative Possibilities
By Donatella Alessandrini
Copyright 2016
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction 1. Of value and its measurement: derivatives and the challenge of financial uncertainty 2. Of value and the contingency of its law: the (still) hidden abode of reproduction 3. Value making in financial and trading arrangements: of provocations and perspectival seeing 4. Re/production as the nexus: of (non)wage labour and alternative valorisations Conclusion
Biography
Donatella Alessandrini is Reader in Law at the Kent Law School. Her research interests are in the areas of critical development studies, trade theory and practice, and feminist political economy.
