Law and Sustainability - Reshaping the Socio-Economic Order Through Economic and Technological Innovation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book deals with some aspects of the future shape of the socio-economic order which would be founded on sustainability principles and the role of law therein, instead of on the prevailing capitalist economic order. The volume elaborates in particular on how innovation, a crucial aspect of free-market capitalism and its laws which constitute the current socio-economic order, could result in a more sustainable economy which, in turn, could lead to a more sustainable society. Moreover, the book analyses current developments in financial and economic law and evaluates their perks, risks and sustainability levels.The book contains no less than 11 chapters in which a variety of experts share their state-of-the-art insights regarding specific domains of socio-economic life. As such, the book deals with topics that are at present fully under debate in societies, such as student credit and the dangers it entails, crypto currencies and how the law tries to regulate this basically private law instrument, groups of companies under Belgian (company) law, a proposal for improving the international monetary system, and seeds and intellectual property rights, besides various other similar themes. The book forms the latest volume of the book series Economic and Financial Law & Policy - Shifting Insights & Values, and fully complies with the series' goal of critically exa mining the legal methods and mechanisms that shape the global free markets and proposing alternatives to them. The book will hereby prove a valuable instru ment for all researchers investigating these matters, besides policymakers and their ad visers as well as all lawyers active in the field of economic law who look for a new per spective on the subject matters dealt with.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Economic and Financial Law & Policy - Shifting Insights & Values, 6
Release date:	June 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Koen Byttebier • Kim Van der Borght
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-092619-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > General Books > Law > International law > Public international law > International economic & trade law > General Books > Money & Finance > General
LSN:	3-03-092619-2
Barcode:	9783030926199

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