The Laws of Finance For a Sociology of Finance and Law Entanglement

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ID4180791
AuthorsThomas Angeletti (0000-0003-0181-0067, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Benjamin Lemoine (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Year2021
Volume62
Issue2
Pages183-212
Publication date2021-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEuropean Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-9756 • E-ISSN: 1474-0583
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003975621000278
OpenAlexW4205329466
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited73

In this special issue, we unpack law and finance entities and consider their co-construction, entanglement and interchanging relationship. Adopting a processual sociology lens, we aim to connect micro-technical devices and controversies to the macroscopic big picture of financialized capitalism. We combine analytical tools from pragmatic sociology, emphasizing how social reality and institutions are (re-)enacted through trials, with a dynamic and historicized sociology of the state and the juridical field. Four avenues illustrate our research program on the sociology of financial law. First, we focus on how this juridical space is co-produced by public and private forces, organizations and initiatives. Second, we look at how financial law displaces and endogenizes core regalian purposes traditionally associated with the state. Third, we show the forms of asymmetries that pervade law enforcement in financial cases. Fourth, we address how power intervenes in normal and exceptional times, such as financial crises. The legal and financial co-production of political regimes shapes economies and legitimate forms of social distribution

Capitalism · Economics · Field (mathematics) · Law and economics · Law enforcement · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of law · State (computer science) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency · Finance · Global Financial Regulation and Crises · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law

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