Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value.
Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines law’s fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilizing pathbreaking theoretical approaches, it problematizes mainstream efforts to redeem institutions of value production by recoupling them with progressive values. Aiming beyond radical critique, the book opens up the possibility of imagining and enacting new and different value practices.
This wide-ranging and accessible book will appeal to international lawyers, socio-legal scholars, those working at the intersections of law and economy and others, in politics, economics, environmental studies and elsewhere, who are concerned with rethinking our current ideas of what has value, what does not, and whether and how value may be revalued.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Author(s): Isabel Feichtner, Geoff Gordon
Publisher: Routledge/GlassHouse
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 348
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the Contributors
Chapter 1 Constitutions of Value: An Introduction
Chapter 2 The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values
Chapter 3 Against Value(s): Marx, Wertkritik and the Illusions of State, Politics and Law
Chapter 4 Real (E)State: Valuing a Nation under Imperial Rentier Capitalism
Chapter 5 Paris is Burning: A Cautionary Tale about the Politics of Value
Chapter 6 Capitalism, the Constitutional Theory of the Firm, and Value Production: Investment and Labor Market Precarity
Chapter 7 The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money
Chapter 8 States, Markets, and Transnational Law: A Re-evaluation of the Legal “Constitution” of Money
Chapter 9 Financial Value, Anthropological Critique, and the Operations of the Law
Chapter 10 Critique of Valuation in the Calculation of Damages in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Between Law, Finance and Politics
Chapter 11 On the Value of Rights
Chapter 12 Value as Potentiality: Blockchain and the Age of Institutional Challenges
Chapter 13 The Contemporary Values of Operadiction Regimes
Chapter 14 Legally Constituting the Value of Nature: The Green Economy and Stranded Assets
Chapter 15 The Market as a “Rigged Game”: Theories of Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Their Implications for Value, Price, and Measures of Real Wealth
Chapter 16 Value in the Emotional Register
Chapter 17 Value Talk in Legal Academia
Chapter 18 A Vague Reflection on Value, or, the (Im)possibility of Radical Imagination
Index
