Sol Picciotto
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 970514 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sol Picciotto |
| NOMBRES | Sol |
| APELLIDO | Picciotto |
| FIRMA | PICCIOTTO S |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4251-0765 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 138 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Lawyers as Constructive Ideologists of Corporate Capitalism
The study of law as a social process should combine an analysis of structures from a political economy perspective with a sociological focus on the practices of lawyering in mediating social relations and conflicts through the formulation and interpretation of legal texts. This approach is applied here to software, which has become the oxygen of the world economy, powering the digitalisation that has transformed economic activities and social lif…
A Practical Proposal to end Corporate Tax Abuse
An initiative is needed to break the logjam in the international negotiations to reform taxation of multinational enterprises (MNEs). The explosion of profit shifting observed since the 1990s has resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars of tax revenues being lost around the world each year – but reform efforts have thus far failed to deliver measurable progress on the primary agreed goal of better aligning MNEs' taxable profits with the locati…
Technocracy in the Era of Twitter
The international tax system developed as a form of technocratic governance, aimed at facilitating international investment, neglecting provisions for cooperation between national governments for tax enforcement. Its endogenous flaws resulted in its politicization in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s, leading to an increasingly technicized form of global governance. The great financial crisis was even more disruptive and accelerated a shift towar…
On the Sociology of Law in Economic Relations
A focus on law’s role in economic activities was central to many of the classical sociologists, and it remains a key theme in the sociology of law, although no longer central. The view of capitalism as a market economy is reflected in formalist perspectives on economics, law and even sociology, and limits these understandings. Economic sociologists and institutional economists have examined the extensive institutionalisation of economic activity …
Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital
The Editorial Board of Social and Legal Studies is pleased to present this Dialogue & Debate which features Katharina Pistor’s fascinating new book, The Code of Capital. We thank our contributors – Marco Goldoni, Iagê Miola, Anna Chadwick, and Sol Picciotto – for their insightful engagements with the book. We also wish to express our particular gratitude to Katharina Pistor for agreeing to contribute a rejoinder to the Dialogue & Debate, and for …
Regulation
In the quarter-century that Social & Legal Studies has been published, regulation has emerged as a new, and for many exciting, interdisciplinary field. The concept itself requires a wider view of normativity than the narrow positivist one of law as command. It is certainly protean, ranging over many fundamental questions about the changing nature of the public sphere of politics and the state, and its interactions with the ‘private’ sphere of eco…
Capitalismo corporativo e a regulação internacional da concorrência / Corporate capitalism and the international regulation of competition
DOI: 10.12957/dep.2016.26508 Resumo A corporação permitiu a transformação radical do capitalismo, do laissez-faire ao capitalismo corporativo regulado. Ainda que o direito da concorrência tenha nascido de um impulso populista para restringir o poder econômico oligopolizado, acabou se tornando, em grande medida, um forma de moldá-lo e legitimá-lo. Leis concorrenciais se difundiram pelo mundo, e hoje desempenham um papel de crescente importância em…
Indeterminacy, Complexity, Technocracy and the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
Recent public concerns and publicity about the extent of tax avoidance by some of the largest and most respected transnational corporations have prompted numerous parliamentary inquiries and intergovernmental initiatives. Among the questions raised during hearings in the UK House of Lords on 11 June 2013 were whether such avoidance could be more effectively prevented either by a reduction in the complexity of the rules, or by a more aggressive in…
Linking Global Trade and Human Rights
During the global economic crisis of 2008, countries around the world used national policy spaces to respond to the crisis in ways that shed new light on the possibilities for linkages between international trade and human rights. This book introduces the idea of policy space as an innovative way to reframe recent developments in global governance. It brings together a wide-ranging group of leading experts in international law, trade, human right…
Imposer les multinationales, une gageure
International Transformations of the Capitalist State 1
There has not been a retreat but a transformation of the state, involving significant changes in both the public sphere of politics and the so‐called private sphere of economic activity, and in their modes of interaction, especially law. The privatization of state‐owned assets and the reduction of direct state economic intervention have not led to a reduced role of the state but to changes in its form, involving new types of formalized regulation…
Constructing Compliance
This article proposes a rethinking of approaches to compliance, extending perspectives that view regulation as an interactive or reflexive process mediated by sociolinguistic practices. These suggest that the meaning of rules is not fixed ex ante, but may emerge and change through such interactions, which therefore actually help to construct what it means to comply. The analysis supports proposals to base tax law on purposive general principles c…
The Acceptable Face of Intervention
This is a review article of Landes and Posner's "The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law" (2003). It argues that their defence of intellectual property is not reconcilable with the stance they have elsewhere taken towards government intervention. IP rights are government interventions in market allocations, and their justification is in terms of optimising the social welfare function. As such they should be subject to many of the crit…
The WTO's Appellate Body
The creation of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) entails an unprecedented delegation of power to an international adjudicator, because the WTO requires states to ensure compliance of their domestic regulations with the sweeping obligations in WTO agreements. This is legitimized in some academic analyses and much political rhetoric in terms of the rule of law, suggesting that the role of the adjudicator is merely to ap…
Private rights vs public standards in the WTO
The WTO is a central node of the re-regulation of the global economy. The priority it gives to liberalization makes it inappropriate for further `constitutionalization', as some have argued, since this would further entrench a neo-liberal form of regulation. A better balance between the market-opening obligations of the WTO and national and international regulatory standards requires more deference by the WTO to the appropriate roles of other bod…
Private rights vs public standards in the WTO
The WTO is a central node of the re-regulation of the global economy. The priority it gives to liberalization makes it inappropriate for further `constitutionalization', as some have argued, since this would further entrench a neo-liberal form of regulation. A better balance between the market-opening obligations of the WTO and national and international regulatory standards requires more deference by the WTO to the appropriate roles of other bod…
Regulating Global Financial Markets
This paper discusses the role of regulation in the emergence of a global system of linked financial markets. It traces the origins of the internationalization of financial markets to the emergence of new competitive pressures, rooted in changes in the social structures of savings and investment, breaking down both national systems of financial control and international arrangements for monetary and financial co‐ordination. These changes have been…
Fragmented States and International Rules of Law
Globalisation, as the latest phase in the development of the world system, involves a fragmentation and restructuring of state forms, in which law is being called upon to mediate shifts in the structures of power. A historical and empirically rich analysis is needed to help understand the nature and changing forms of statehood, as well as the possibilities and limits of law, and the paper explores these in the context of some aspects of business …
Capital, Crisis and the State
As capitalism has moved into a period of open crisis and reconstruction, the necessity has increasingly been forced upon the working class movement to sharpen our understanding of the dynamic of capitalist accumulation and its relation to class struggle. One crucial aspect of this is the question of the relationship between capital and the state, since the state plays a vital part in the maintenance and reproduction of capital as a relation of cl…
The Internationalisation of the State
The national state was the basis of the regulatory framework of modern corporate capitalism. International coordination of state functions is based on bureaucratic corporatist bargaining through formal and informal structures. The globalisation of social relations puts increasing pressure on both national and international state structures, and requires a popular internationalist response
The Control of Transnational Capital and the Democratisation of the International State
Sol Picciotto, The Control of Transnational Capital and the Democratisation of the International State, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, Law, Democracy & Social Justice (Spring, 1988), pp. 58-76
The battles at Talbot·Poissy
On the basis of discussions with workers and trade unionists in Coventry, Linwood, France and Spain, Sol Picciotto reconstructs the events which culminated in pitched battles at the Talbot-Poissy plant in January. He shows how Peugeot was able to create and use every division between workers; how the intervention of the 'Socialist' government seriously weakened workers' organisations; and illustrates the difficulty of organising international sol…
Capital, Crisis Y Estado
The Nationalisation of Multinationals in Peripheral Economies
Journal Article The Nationalisation of Multinationals in Peripheral Economies Get access The Nationalisation of Multinationals in Peripheral Economies. Edited by JULIO FAUNDEZ and SOL PICCIOTTO. (London: Macmillan, 1978. Pp. ix + 238. £12.00.) David Forsyth David Forsyth University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 357, 1 March 1980, Pages 200–202, https:…
State and capital
Constructing Compliance
This article proposes a rethinking of approaches to compliance, extending perspectives that view regulation as an interactive or reflexive process mediated by sociolinguistic practices. These suggest that the meaning of rules is not fixed ex ante, but may emerge and change through such interactions, which therefore actually help to construct what it means to comply. The analysis supports proposals to base tax law on purposive general principles c…
Capital, Crisis and the State
As capitalism has moved into a period of open crisis and reconstruction, the necessity has increasingly been forced upon the working class movement to sharpen our understanding of the dynamic of capitalist accumulation and its relation to class struggle. One crucial aspect of this is the question of the relation-ship between capital and the state, since the state plays a vital part in the maintenance and reproduction of capital as a relation of c…
The Internationalisation of the State
The national state was the basis of the regulatory framework of modern corporate capitalism. International coordination of state functions is based on bureaucratic corporatist bargaining through formal and informal structures. The globalisation of social relations puts increasing pressure on both national and international state structures, and requires a popular internationalist response
Indeterminacy, Complexity, Technocracy and the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
Recent public concerns and publicity about the extent of tax avoidance by some of the largest and most respected transnational corporations have prompted numerous parliamentary inquiries and intergovernmental initiatives. Among the questions raised during hearings in the UK House of Lords on 11 June 2013 were whether such avoidance could be more effectively prevented either by a reduction in the complexity of the rules, or by a more aggressive in…
Technocracy in the Era of Twitter
The international tax system developed as a form of technocratic governance, aimed at facilitating international investment, neglecting provisions for cooperation between national governments for tax enforcement. Its endogenous flaws resulted in its politicization in the 1970s, and again in the 1990s, leading to an increasingly technicized form of global governance. The great financial crisis was even more disruptive and accelerated a shift towar…
Regulation
In the quarter-century that Social & Legal Studies has been published, regulation has emerged as a new, and for many exciting, interdisciplinary field. The concept itself requires a wider view of normativity than the narrow positivist one of law as command. It is certainly protean, ranging over many fundamental questions about the changing nature of the public sphere of politics and the state, and its interactions with the ‘private’ sphere of eco…
The WTO's Appellate Body
The creation of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) entails an unprecedented delegation of power to an international adjudicator, because the WTO requires states to ensure compliance of their domestic regulations with the sweeping obligations in WTO agreements. This is legitimized in some academic analyses and much political rhetoric in terms of the rule of law, suggesting that the role of the adjudicator is merely to ap…
Fragmented States and International Rules of Law
Globalisation, as the latest phase in the development of the world system, involves a fragmentation and restructuring of state forms, in which law is being called upon to mediate shifts in the structures of power. A historical and empirically rich analysis is needed to help understand the nature and changing forms of statehood, as well as the possibilities and limits of law, and the paper explores these in the context of some aspects of business …
On the Sociology of Law in Economic Relations
A focus on law’s role in economic activities was central to many of the classical sociologists, and it remains a key theme in the sociology of law, although no longer central. The view of capitalism as a market economy is reflected in formalist perspectives on economics, law and even sociology, and limits these understandings. Economic sociologists and institutional economists have examined the extensive institutionalisation of economic activity …
International Transformations of the Capitalist State 1
There has not been a retreat but a transformation of the state, involving significant changes in both the public sphere of politics and the so‐called private sphere of economic activity, and in their modes of interaction, especially law. The privatization of state‐owned assets and the reduction of direct state economic intervention have not led to a reduced role of the state but to changes in its form, involving new types of formalized regulation…
Private rights vs public standards in the WTO
The WTO is a central node of the re-regulation of the global economy. The priority it gives to liberalization makes it inappropriate for further `constitutionalization', as some have argued, since this would further entrench a neo-liberal form of regulation. A better balance between the market-opening obligations of the WTO and national and international regulatory standards requires more deference by the WTO to the appropriate roles of other bod…
The Control of Transnational Capital and the Democratisation of the International State
Sol Picciotto, The Control of Transnational Capital and the Democratisation of the International State, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, Law, Democracy & Social Justice (Spring, 1988), pp. 58-76
The battles at Talbot·Poissy
On the basis of discussions with workers and trade unionists in Coventry, Linwood, France and Spain, Sol Picciotto reconstructs the events which culminated in pitched battles at the Talbot-Poissy plant in January. He shows how Peugeot was able to create and use every division between workers; how the intervention of the 'Socialist' government seriously weakened workers' organisations; and illustrates the difficulty of organising international sol…
Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital
The Editorial Board of Social and Legal Studies is pleased to present this Dialogue & Debate which features Katharina Pistor’s fascinating new book, The Code of Capital. We thank our contributors – Marco Goldoni, Iagê Miola, Anna Chadwick, and Sol Picciotto – for their insightful engagements with the book. We also wish to express our particular gratitude to Katharina Pistor for agreeing to contribute a rejoinder to the Dialogue & Debate, and for …
Regulating Global Financial Markets
This paper discusses the role of regulation in the emergence of a global system of linked financial markets. It traces the origins of the internationalization of financial markets to the emergence of new competitive pressures, rooted in changes in the social structures of savings and investment, breaking down both national systems of financial control and international arrangements for monetary and financial co‐ordination. These changes have been…
Capital, Crisis Y Estado
The South-West Africa Case, the New Nations, and International Law
The judgment of the International Court of Justice of 18 July 1966 in the South-West Africa case throws revealing light on the role of that Court in the international community. A proper analysis of this case may also help to dispel some of the mystification about international law and the attitude of the new nations to it
Capital, Crisis and the State
As capitalism has moved into a period of open crisis and reconstruction, the necessity has increasingly been forced upon the working class movement to sharpen our understanding of the dynamic of capitalist accumulation and its relation to class struggle. One crucial aspect of this is the question of the relation-ship between capital and the state, since the state plays a vital part in the maintenance and reproduction of capital as a relation of c…
State and capital
The Nationalisation of Multinationals in Peripheral Economies
Journal Article The Nationalisation of Multinationals in Peripheral Economies Get access The Nationalisation of Multinationals in Peripheral Economies. Edited by JULIO FAUNDEZ and SOL PICCIOTTO. (London: Macmillan, 1978. Pp. ix + 238. £12.00.) David Forsyth David Forsyth University of Strathclyde Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 357, 1 March 1980, Pages 200–202, https:…
The battles at Talbot·Poissy
On the basis of discussions with workers and trade unionists in Coventry, Linwood, France and Spain, Sol Picciotto reconstructs the events which culminated in pitched battles at the Talbot-Poissy plant in January. He shows how Peugeot was able to create and use every division between workers; how the intervention of the 'Socialist' government seriously weakened workers' organisations; and illustrates the difficulty of organising international sol…
Capital, Crisis Y Estado
The Control of Transnational Capital and the Democratisation of the International State
Sol Picciotto, The Control of Transnational Capital and the Democratisation of the International State, Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, Law, Democracy & Social Justice (Spring, 1988), pp. 58-76
Capital, Crisis and the State
As capitalism has moved into a period of open crisis and reconstruction, the necessity has increasingly been forced upon the working class movement to sharpen our understanding of the dynamic of capitalist accumulation and its relation to class struggle. One crucial aspect of this is the question of the relationship between capital and the state, since the state plays a vital part in the maintenance and reproduction of capital as a relation of cl…
The Internationalisation of the State
The national state was the basis of the regulatory framework of modern corporate capitalism. International coordination of state functions is based on bureaucratic corporatist bargaining through formal and informal structures. The globalisation of social relations puts increasing pressure on both national and international state structures, and requires a popular internationalist response
Fragmented States and International Rules of Law
Globalisation, as the latest phase in the development of the world system, involves a fragmentation and restructuring of state forms, in which law is being called upon to mediate shifts in the structures of power. A historical and empirically rich analysis is needed to help understand the nature and changing forms of statehood, as well as the possibilities and limits of law, and the paper explores these in the context of some aspects of business …
Regulating Global Financial Markets
This paper discusses the role of regulation in the emergence of a global system of linked financial markets. It traces the origins of the internationalization of financial markets to the emergence of new competitive pressures, rooted in changes in the social structures of savings and investment, breaking down both national systems of financial control and international arrangements for monetary and financial co‐ordination. These changes have been…
Private rights vs public standards in the WTO
The WTO is a central node of the re-regulation of the global economy. The priority it gives to liberalization makes it inappropriate for further `constitutionalization', as some have argued, since this would further entrench a neo-liberal form of regulation. A better balance between the market-opening obligations of the WTO and national and international regulatory standards requires more deference by the WTO to the appropriate roles of other bod…
Private rights vs public standards in the WTO
The WTO is a central node of the re-regulation of the global economy. The priority it gives to liberalization makes it inappropriate for further `constitutionalization', as some have argued, since this would further entrench a neo-liberal form of regulation. A better balance between the market-opening obligations of the WTO and national and international regulatory standards requires more deference by the WTO to the appropriate roles of other bod…
The WTO's Appellate Body
The creation of the Appellate Body (AB) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) entails an unprecedented delegation of power to an international adjudicator, because the WTO requires states to ensure compliance of their domestic regulations with the sweeping obligations in WTO agreements. This is legitimized in some academic analyses and much political rhetoric in terms of the rule of law, suggesting that the role of the adjudicator is merely to ap…
The Acceptable Face of Intervention
This is a review article of Landes and Posner's "The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law" (2003). It argues that their defence of intellectual property is not reconcilable with the stance they have elsewhere taken towards government intervention. IP rights are government interventions in market allocations, and their justification is in terms of optimising the social welfare function. As such they should be subject to many of the crit…
Constructing Compliance
This article proposes a rethinking of approaches to compliance, extending perspectives that view regulation as an interactive or reflexive process mediated by sociolinguistic practices. These suggest that the meaning of rules is not fixed ex ante, but may emerge and change through such interactions, which therefore actually help to construct what it means to comply. The analysis supports proposals to base tax law on purposive general principles c…
International Transformations of the Capitalist State 1
There has not been a retreat but a transformation of the state, involving significant changes in both the public sphere of politics and the so‐called private sphere of economic activity, and in their modes of interaction, especially law. The privatization of state‐owned assets and the reduction of direct state economic intervention have not led to a reduced role of the state but to changes in its form, involving new types of formalized regulation…
Linking Global Trade and Human Rights
During the global economic crisis of 2008, countries around the world used national policy spaces to respond to the crisis in ways that shed new light on the possibilities for linkages between international trade and human rights. This book introduces the idea of policy space as an innovative way to reframe recent developments in global governance. It brings together a wide-ranging group of leading experts in international law, trade, human right…
Imposer les multinationales, une gageure
Indeterminacy, Complexity, Technocracy and the Reform of International Corporate Taxation
Recent public concerns and publicity about the extent of tax avoidance by some of the largest and most respected transnational corporations have prompted numerous parliamentary inquiries and intergovernmental initiatives. Among the questions raised during hearings in the UK House of Lords on 11 June 2013 were whether such avoidance could be more effectively prevented either by a reduction in the complexity of the rules, or by a more aggressive in…
Capitalismo corporativo e a regulação internacional da concorrência / Corporate capitalism and the international regulation of competition
DOI: 10.12957/dep.2016.26508 Resumo A corporação permitiu a transformação radical do capitalismo, do laissez-faire ao capitalismo corporativo regulado. Ainda que o direito da concorrência tenha nascido de um impulso populista para restringir o poder econômico oligopolizado, acabou se tornando, em grande medida, um forma de moldá-lo e legitimá-lo. Leis concorrenciais se difundiram pelo mundo, e hoje desempenham um papel de crescente importância em…
Regulation
In the quarter-century that Social & Legal Studies has been published, regulation has emerged as a new, and for many exciting, interdisciplinary field. The concept itself requires a wider view of normativity than the narrow positivist one of law as command. It is certainly protean, ranging over many fundamental questions about the changing nature of the public sphere of politics and the state, and its interactions with the ‘private’ sphere of eco…
Katharina Pistor’s The Code of Capital
The Editorial Board of Social and Legal Studies is pleased to present this Dialogue & Debate which features Katharina Pistor’s fascinating new book, The Code of Capital. We thank our contributors – Marco Goldoni, Iagê Miola, Anna Chadwick, and Sol Picciotto – for their insightful engagements with the book. We also wish to express our particular gratitude to Katharina Pistor for agreeing to contribute a rejoinder to the Dialogue & Debate, and for …
On the Sociology of Law in Economic Relations
A focus on law’s role in economic activities was central to many of the classical sociologists, and it remains a key theme in the sociology of law, although no longer central. The view of capitalism as a market economy is reflected in formalist perspectives on economics, law and even sociology, and limits these understandings. Economic sociologists and institutional economists have examined the extensive institutionalisation of economic activity …
A Practical Proposal to end Corporate Tax Abuse
An initiative is needed to break the logjam in the international negotiations to reform taxation of multinational enterprises (MNEs). The explosion of profit shifting observed since the 1990s has resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars of tax revenues being lost around the world each year – but reform efforts have thus far failed to deliver measurable progress on the primary agreed goal of better aligning MNEs' taxable profits with the locati…
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