Remaking Law & Economics
What is new about the Law and Political Economy Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17820249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felipe Manuel Figueroa Zimmermann (0000-0002-4944-306X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-34 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Oñati Socio-legal Series (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2079-5971 • E-ISSN: 2079-5971 |
| Publisher | Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (PUBLISHER • ES) |
| DOI | 10.35295/osls.iisl.2295 |
| OpenAlex | W4415986186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) movement aims to challenge the dominance of the “Chicago approach” in Law and Economics and offer a political alternative to neoliberalism. To evaluate its prospects, we must clarify neoliberalism’s relationship to LPE’s intellectual lineage—Legal Realism and American Institutionalism—whose decline in U.S. academia coincided with the rise of the Chicago School and Public Choice Theory. These movements assimilated and redirected core insights of those earlier traditions. I argue that LPE must more fully reclaim its intellectual history to resist similar subversion. This is illustrated through the trajectory of a key idea shared by all of these traditions: that economic power is tantamount to political power. I conclude by proposing that this idea compels closer attention to what I call “modalities of power”—the mechanisms through which economic and political domination are intertwined
Core (optical fiber) · Dominance (genetics) · International political economy · Politics · Power (physics) · Realism · Comparative and International Law Studies · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Legal Education and Practice Innovations
The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904
The Road from Mont Pèlerin
Gilles Deleuze
The Constitution of Liberty
The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916
Transcendental Nonsense and the Functional Approach
Law and Political Economy in a Time of Accelerating Crises
Bound by the Economic Constitution
James M. Buchanan and Liberal Political Economy
Strategies of Economic Order
The Great Derangement
Limiting democracy and framing the economy
How can the people be restricted?’
Social Choice, Democracy, and Free Markets
The trajectory of the Anthropocene
Ordoliberalism and Neoliberalization
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |