Constitutions of Value

Gathering an interdisciplinary range of cutting-edge scholars, this book addresses legal constitutions of value. Global value production and transnational value practices that rely on exploitation and extraction have left us with toxic commons and a damaged planet. Against this situation, the book examines law's fundamental role in institutions of value production and valuation. Utilizing pathbreaking theoretical approaches, it problematizes mainstream efforts to redeem institutions of value production by recoupling them with progressive values. Aiming beyond radical critique, the book opens up the possibility of imagining and enacting new and different value practices. This wide-ranging and accessible book will appeal to international lawyers, socio-legal scholars, those working at the intersections of law and economy and others, in politics, economics, environmental studies and elsewhere, who are concerned with rethinking our current ideas of what has value, what does not, and whether and how value may be revalued. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Isabel Feichtner is Professor at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Geoff Gordon is Senior Researcher at the Asser Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1. Constitutions of Value: An Introduction to the Symposium Isabel Feichtner and Geoff Gordon 2. The Constitution of Non-Monetary Surplus Values Gunther Teubner 3. Against Value(s): Marx, Wertkritik and the Illusions of State, Politics and Law Klaus Kempter 4. Real (E)State: Valuing a Nation under Imperial Rentier Capitalism Christine Schwöbel-Patel 5. Paris is Burning: A Cautionary Tale About the Politics of Value Clair Quentin 6. Capitalism, the Constitutional Theory of the Firm, and Value Production: Investment and Labor Market Precarity Jamee K. Moudud 7. The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money Christine Desan 8. States, Markets, and Transnational Law: A Re-evaluation of the Legal 'Constitution' of Money Anna Chadwick 9. Financial Value, Anthropological Critique, and the Operations of the Law Fabian Muniesa 10. Critique of Valuation in the Calculation of Damages in ISDS: Between Law, Finance and Politics Toni Marzal 11. On the Value of Rights Florian Hoffmann 12. Value as Potentiality: Blockchain and the Age of Institutional Challenges Outi Korhonen and Juho Rantala 13. The Contemporary Values of Operadiction Regimes Dimitri Van Den Meerssche and Geoff Gordon 14. Legally Constituting the Value of Nature: the Green Economy and Stranded Assets Julia Dehm 15. The Market as a 'Rigged Game': Theories of Ecologically Unequal Exchange and Their Implications for Value, Price, and Measures of Real Wealth Oliver Schlaudt 16. Value in the Emotional Register Jessie Hohmann 17. Value Talk in Legal Academia John D. Haskell 18. A Vague Reflection on Value, or, the (Im)possibility of Radical Imagination Sofia Stolk