Masking neo-liberal development: Polanyi, rule of law and dis-embedding dynamics

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Rule of Law; Dis-embedding; Neo-liberal economic model; Post-colonial Neo-liberal orientalism; Suspension; Law and Society; Legal History; Public Law and Legal Theory
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2355; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4312/viewcontent/IJDI_05_2017_0060.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Purpose: Polanyi in his analysis of market dis-embedding suggests a drift in economic relations from the social to the fictitious. The purpose of this paper is to add two crucial components to the dis-embedding dynamic: rule of law discourse as a market force away from the social, and through suspen...