Law’s regulatory relevance? Property, power and market economies

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Law; regulation and governance; Administrative Law; Property Law and Real Estate
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2353; https://search.library.smu.edu.sg/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99318445802601&context=L&vid=65SMU_INST:SMU_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=INK&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=INK&query=any,contains,Law%E2%80%99s%20regulatory%20relevance%3F%20Property,%20power%20and%20market%20economies&offset=0
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The book theorises how the law should reposition itself in order to help rather than hinder new pathways of market power, by confronting the dominant neo-liberal economic model that values property through scarcity. With in-depth analysis of empirical case studies, the author explores how law is returning to its communal utility in strengthening social ties, which will in turn restore property as social relations rather than market commodities. In a world of contested narratives about property valuing law needs to ground its inherent regulatory relevance in the ordering of social change.