(Source: Haymarket Books)
Haymarket Books is publishing a book
on a Marxist perspective on the role of law in the global political economy, as
part of its historical materialism book series.
ABOUT THE BOOK
This radical and innovative
volume develops a Marxist understanding of the symbiosis between law and
capital in our society.
In The Corporation, Law
and Capitalism, Grietje Baars offers a radical Marxist perspective on the
role of law in the global political economy. Closing a major gap in historical-materialist
scholarship, Baars demonstrates how the corporation, capitalism’s main engine
from city-state and colonial times to the present multinational, is a
masterpiece of legal technology. The symbiosis between law and capital becomes
acutely apparent in the question of ‘corporate accountability’. Baars provides
a detailed analysis of corporate human rights and war crimes trials, from the
Nuremberg industrialists’ trials to current efforts. The book shows that
precisely because of law’s relationship to capital, law cannot
prevent or remedy the ‘externalities’ produced by corporate capitalism. This
realisation will generate the space required to formulate a different answer to
‘the question of the corporation’, and to global corporate capitalism more
broadly, outside of the law.
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