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Building a Law-and-Political-Economy Framework: Beyond the Twentieth-Century Synthesis
- Source :
- Yale Law Journal. April, 2020, Vol. 129 Issue 6, p1784, 52 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We live in a time of interrelated crises. Economic inequality and precarity, and crises of democracy, climate change, and more raise significant challenges for legal scholarship and thought. 'Neoliberal' premises undergird many fields of law and have helped authorize policies and practices that reaffirm the inequities of the current era. In particular, market efficiency, neutrality, and formal equality have rendered key kinds of power invisible, and generated a skepticism of democratic politics. The result of these presumptions is what we call the 'Twentieth-Century Synthesis': a pervasive view of law that encases 'the market' from claims of justice and conceals it from analyses of power. This Feature offers a framework for identifying and critiquing the Twentieth-Century Synthesis. This is also a framework for a new 'law-and-political-economy approach' to legal scholarship. We hope to help amplify and catalyze scholarship and pedagogy that place themes of power, equality, and democracy at the center of legal scholarship.<br />FEATURE CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1786 I. THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY SYNTHESIS 1794 A. The Autonomy of the Economy 1795 B. The Law of the Economy Remade 1801 C. The Twentieth-Century Synthesis Comes to [...]
- Subjects :
- Neoliberalism -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects -- Political aspects -- Methods -- Models -- Research -- Analysis
Economic justice -- Analysis -- Methods -- Research -- Social aspects -- Economic aspects -- Models -- Political aspects
Income distribution -- Analysis -- Political aspects -- Research -- Models -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects -- Methods
Economic efficiency -- Influence -- Political aspects -- Social aspects -- Analysis -- Methods -- Models -- Research -- Economic aspects
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects -- Analysis -- Political aspects -- Models -- Methods -- Research
Law and economics (Jurisprudence) -- Models -- Political aspects -- Research -- Analysis -- Methods -- Economic aspects -- Social aspects
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00440094
- Volume :
- 129
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Yale Law Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.625863980