The aim of this paper is to analyse the way in which the world is divided into different 'legal traditions', in order to understand the actual establishment of a ranking of the various legal systems, as it is used as a powerful device for global governance, directed to mould policy projects of...

The global financial and economic crises exposed one of the major weaknesses of a Bahrain and its reliance on too few export commodities and one or two sectors. Such dependence makes Bahrain vulnerable to fluctuations in commodity prices and demand. The purpose of this study looks at how the...

This making known highlights the key problems about Myanmar-India relations, and therefore the main areas of concern with current Indian policy. Indian policy has modified markedly since the Nineteen Nineties, driven by realism and its own economic and strategic interests

India’s retailing sector is expected to remain in a transition spiral for the foreseeable future. Because of India’s unique context – in terms of history, regulation, institutions, demographics, geography, and traditions – there is limited applicability of the available theories of...

This contribution contains a reply to Harvard Law School Professor David Kennedy's 2018 Montesquieu Lecture titled ‘Law, Expertise and Global Political Economy', held at Tilburg Law School on March 8, 2018

Today’s globalized economy cannot be governed by legal strictures alone. A combination of self-interest and regulation is not enough to avoid the recurrence of its systemic crises. We also need virtues and a sense of corporate responsibility in order to assure the sustained success of the...

The current economic crisis is a complex social phenomenon, several aspects of which go beyond national borders and also cross traditional academic disciplinary boundaries. While initial academic commentary in media has typically been grounded within finance or economics disciplinary boundaries,...

This paper compares Deirdre McCloskey's reading of the "bourgeois reevaluation" with Sergio Ricossa's. Italian economist Sergio Ricossa was – like McCloskey – schooled in the neoclassical, formalistic tradition, but in time drifted toward a more "Austrian" approach, as he was influenced by...

Max Weber's relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention recently. However, this literature as conducted by Weber scholars and by Austrian economists exhibits two major deficiencies. First, the studies are often either purely...

This paper argues that the usual framing of discussions of money, monetary policy, and fiscal policy plays into the hands of conservatives.That framing is also largely consistent with the conventional view of the economy and of society more generally. To put it the way that economists usually...