Regulatory Transformations. Rethinking Economy – Society Interactions. By Bettina Lange, Fiona Haines and Dania Thomas (eds.). Oñati International Series in Law and Society, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015. 272 pp. £60.00 hardcover.

Abstract

1. Regulatory Transformations: An Introduction Bettina Lange and Fiona Haines Part I: Theoretical Resources for Thinking about how to Harness the Regulatory Capacity of a Social Sphere 2. The Regulation of Markets: Polanyian Perspectives Alexander Ebner 3. Economics and Transnational Risk Regulation Christopher Decker Part II: Harnessing the Capacity of a Social Sphere for Regulating Corporate Actors 4. Export Credit Agencies and Human Rights Abuses: Flux and Friction in Regulation Fiona Haines and Samantha Balaton-Chrimes 5. Transnational Business and the Politics of Social Risk: Re-Embedding Transnational Supply Chains Through Private Governance Kate Macdonald and Shelley Marshall Part III: Regulating Trade in Fictitious and Risky Commodities 6. Making Sense of the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement: An Essay about Scholarly Expertise Elizabeth Fisher 7. Regulating Economic Activity Through Performative Discourses: A Case Study of the EU Carbon Market Bettina Lange 8. (Dis)embeddedness and the Management of Transnational Risk: The Case of Blood Regulation Anne-Maree Farrell 9. Double Movements in the Regulation of New Technologies: The Case of Nanotechnology Elen Stokes 10. Risk-Free Debt: The Distorting Promissory Narratives in Sovereign Debt Law and Policy Dania Thomas