Reshaping Markets

Introduction: reshaping markets and the question of agency Peer Zumbansen; Part I. Crisis and Normality in Transnational Market Regulation: 1. The central problem of Marx's economics and the nature of market regulation David Campbell; 2. Contract law, securitization and the pre-crisis transformation of banking James Varellas; 3. 'Inside' and 'outside' the firm: corporate law and contract governance as regulatory theories Peer Zumbansen; Part II. Austerity Woes: Trials and Tribulations of Debt: 4. The Greek crisis: a critical narrative Iannis Michos; 5. The biopolitics of debt-economy: market order, ascetic and hedonistic morality Alessandro Somma; 6. Credit contracts and the political economy of debt Moritz Renner and Andreas Leidinger; Part III. Reforming Finance: Systematic Risk and Accountability: 7. Why manager liability fails at controlling systemic risk Andreas Engert; 8. How special are they? Targeting systemic risk by regulating shadow banking Tobias Troger; 9. Fixing finance 2.0 John M. Conley and Cynthia A. Williams; 10. Regulating financial markets: what we might learn from sovereign wealth funds Larry Cata Backer; Part IV. Transforming Contract: 11. Sustainable contracting: how standard terms could govern markets Bertram Lomfeld; 12. Anti-discrimination law and social policy-making Sonja Haberl; 13. European or American style? Cultures of contract regulation Daniela Caruso; Part V. Conceptual Utopia: The Market After the Market: 14. The truth of the market Maria Rosaria Ferrarese; Epilogue: the power of law to reshape markets Bertram Lomfeld.