Heterodox Challenges to Consumption-Oriented Models of Legislation

Luigi Russi and John D. Haskell
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John D. Haskell: Mississippi College School of Law

No 3-15, IUC Research Commons from International University College of Turin

Abstract: Consumption-oriented models of governance dominate the contemporary global legal architecture. The financial crisis beginning in 2008, however, poses fundamental questions about the future viability of these approaches to economics and law. This paper attempts to first, evaluate consumption's salient historical development and themes from the post World War II era to more recent legislative innovation, and second, introduce seven heterodox vignettes that challenge the hegemony of consumption in legislative policy. The paper concludes with some brief reflections upon potential opportunities and limitations of these heterodox traditions within future scholarship and policy addressing the interplay of law and consumption in global governance.

Keywords: political economy; ordoliberalism; critical legal theory; deep ecology; consumerism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N30 P16 P46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2015-04
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Published in Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, 2015, vol. 9:13-61

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