Clare Williams

An Economic Sociology of Law Reimagined

Beyond Embeddedness

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Produktbeschreibung

This book critically examines the concept of 'embeddedness': the core concept of an Economic Sociology of Law (ESL).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780367761448
• ISBN-10: 0367761440
• Artikelnr.: 65911837

Autorenporträt

Clare Williams is an ESRC¿SeNSS funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements and return journeys
Visualizing socio-legal frames, concepts, and methods
1 Doing, talking, and thinking (and why we're not getting it right)
Crashes, crises, catastrophes
Doing, talking, and thinking
The law and the economy don't really exist
PS: Nor does society
How metaphors use us
Constructing reality
Introducing homo juridicus and homo economicus
An ongoing conceptual commitment to embeddedness
Introducing an economic sociology of law (ESL): the home of embeddedness
The career of embeddedness in ESL and two conceptual conundrums
Embeddedness in academic literature: drawing parallels and drawing
conclusions
Introducing our "guide" personas: Ann, Polly, and Lillian
Bibliography
2 Introducing an economic sociology of law
What is an economic sociology of law (ESL)?
The role of economic sociology of law: responding to disciplinarity
The intellectual heritage of ESL: economic sociology and socio-legal
scholarship
Socio-legal heritage
Economic sociology heritage
"Black boxes" and taxonomies
Text; subtext; context
Empirical; conceptual; normative
Econo-socio-legal
Instrumental; affective; belief-based; traditional
Micro; meso; macro; meta
Writing the rules of the game: indicators as technologies of governance
ESL is (currently) a pseudo-constructivist lens: boundaries and borderlands
Bibliography
3 Embeddedness: A biography of a concept
Embeddedness: the origins
Talking about embeddedness
Karl Polanyi's always (or never) embedded market
The "accidental" revival of embeddedness
Critiques of embeddedness
Critiques of macro-level embeddedness
Critiques of micro-level embeddedness
Reconciling macro- and micro-level embeddedness?
Reconciling the implications: cognitive and normative embeddedness
How might we make embeddedness more consistent?
Embedded liberalism
Embedded autonomy
Reconciling the insights?
The embeddedness conundrum is reinvented
Bibliography
4 Embeddedness: The internal inconsistencies
The internal inconsistency of embeddedness: "what are we talking about?"
Block's interpretation of Polanyian embeddedness
Dale's interpretation of Polanyian embeddedness
Doughnut Economics versus The Econocracy
Doughnut Economics
The Econocracy
Emblematic of a wider approach
What is embedded? And in what?
Bibliography
5 Embeddedness: The external conceptual incompatibilities
How we tend to think (our default conceptual tools)
How we might think differently (challenging default conceptual tools)
Thinking about embeddedness as a black box
Proposing an alternative ESL lens: beyond embeddedness
Shift 1: from the actor to their interaction
Trust is important in understanding interactions
Shift 2: embeddedness to feedback loops
Understanding feedback loops through performativity
Exploring the performativity of law and economics with a thought experiment
Beyond homo economicus-juridicus?
Bibliography
6 Beyond embeddedness: The next steps
What remains of ESL without its core concept of embeddedness?
Lingering questions about an ESL lens
What, where, or who is "the social"?
But "how much?": the "sociological fallacy"
Removing the core concept: what is left?
What's in a name? Linguistic limitations
Clean models or dirty hands?
ESL, politics, and power: can an ESL lens ever be apolitical?
Responding to crashes, crises, catastrophes
Our conceptual commitment to embeddedness continues
Shoehorning concepts into categories: Happy the Elephant, Chucho the Bear,
and their friends
Shoehorning concepts into categories: COVID versus the economy?
Rebalancing voices and values: becoming 'homo sociologicus'?
"Happy" Bhutan
"Sustainable" Oslo
Framing the future? Rebalancing voices and values
Moving beyond embeddedness?
Bibliography
Epilogue: Notes about the characters
Index

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Preface



Acknowledgements and return journeys



Visualizing socio-legal frames, concepts, and methods

1 Doing, talking, and thinking (and why we're not getting it right)



Crashes, crises, catastrophes

Doing, talking, and thinking

The law and the economy don't really exist

PS: Nor does society

How metaphors use us

Constructing reality

Introducing homo juridicus and homo economicus

An ongoing conceptual commitment to embeddedness

Introducing an economic sociology of law (ESL): the home of embeddedness

The career of embeddedness in ESL and two conceptual conundrums

Embeddedness in academic literature: drawing parallels and drawing conclusions

Introducing our "guide" personas: Ann, Polly, and Lillian

Bibliography



2 Introducing an economic sociology of law



What is an economic sociology of law (ESL)?



The role of economic sociology of law: responding to disciplinarity



The intellectual heritage of ESL: economic sociology and socio-legal scholarship

Socio-legal heritage

Economic sociology heritage

"Black boxes" and taxonomies

Text; subtext; context

Empirical; conceptual; normative

Econo-socio-legal

Instrumental; affective; belief-based; traditional

Micro; meso; macro; meta

Writing the rules of the game: indicators as technologies of governance

ESL is (currently) a pseudo-constructivist lens: boundaries and borderlands

Bibliography



3 Embeddedness: A biography of a concept



Embeddedness: the origins

Talking about embeddedness

Karl Polanyi's always (or never) embedded market

The "accidental" revival of embeddedness

Critiques of embeddedness

Critiques of macro-level embeddedness

Critiques of micro-level embeddedness

Reconciling macro- and micro-level embeddedness?

Reconciling the implications: cognitive and normative embeddedness

How might we make embeddedness more consistent?

Embedded liberalism

Embedded autonomy

Reconciling the insights?

The embeddedness conundrum is reinvented

Bibliography



4 Embeddedness: The internal inconsistencies



The internal inconsistency of embeddedness: "what are we talking about?"

Block's interpretation of Polanyian embeddedness

Dale's interpretation of Polanyian embeddedness



Doughnut Economics versus The Econocracy



Doughnut Economics

The Econocracy

Emblematic of a wider approach

What is embedded? And in what?

Bibliography



5 Embeddedness: The external conceptual incompatibilities



How we tend to think (our default conceptual tools)

How we might think differently (challenging default conceptual tools)

Thinking about embeddedness as a black box

Proposing an alternative ESL lens: beyond embeddedness

Shift 1: from the actor to their interaction

Trust is important in understanding interactions

Shift 2: embeddedness to feedback loops

Understanding feedback loops through performativity

Exploring the performativity of law and economics with a thought experiment



Beyond homo economicus-juridicus?



Bibliography



6 Beyond embeddedness: The next steps



What remains of ESL without its core concept of embeddedness?

Lingering questions about an ESL lens

What, where, or who is "the social"?

But "how much?": the "sociological fallacy"

Removing the core concept: what is left?

What's in a name? Linguistic limitations

Clean models or dirty hands?

ESL, politics, and power: can an ESL lens ever be apolitical?

Responding to crashes, crises, catastrophes

Our conceptual commitment to embeddedness continues

Shoehorning concepts into categories: Happy the Elephant, Chucho the Bear, and their friends

Shoehorning concepts into categories: COVID versus the economy?



Rebalancing voices and values: becoming 'homo sociologicus'?



"Happy" Bhutan

"Sustainable" Oslo

Framing the future? Rebalancing voices and values

Moving beyond embeddedness?

Bibliography



Epilogue: Notes about the characters



Index