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Book SynopsisReflecting a developing trend towards interdisciplinary research in economics and law, this agenda-setting volume makes the case for the economic sociology of law. It locates this novel subject in a wider socio-legal tradition.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Moving Towards an Economic Sociology of Law (Diamond Ashiagbor, Prabha Kotiswaran and Amanda Perry-Kessaris)
1. From Credit to Crisis: Max Weber, Karl Polanyi, and the Other Side of the Coin (Sabine Frerichs)
2. Relational Work and the Law: Recapturing the Legal Realist Critique of Market Fundamentalism (Fred Block)
3. Rethinking ‘Embeddedness’: Law, Economy, Community (Roger Cotterrell)
4. Anemos-ity, Apatheia, Enthousiasmos: An Economic Sociology of Law and Wind Farm Development in Cyprus (Amanda Perry-Kessaris)
5. Maine (and Weber) Against the Grain: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of the Corporate Person (Ritu Birla)
6. Do Feminists Need an Economic Sociology of Law? (Prabha Kotiswaran)
7. Law, Social Policy, and the Constitution of Markets and Profit Making (Kenneth Veitch)
8. The Legal Construction of Economic Rationalities? (Andrew T.F. Lang)
