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Author Herian, Robert, author.

Title Capitalism and the equity fetish : desire, property, justice / Robert Herian
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages)
Contents Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 3: Reform economics and the 'Plucked Rib' of Equity -- Chapter 4: The Road to Complete Justice -- Chapter 5: Stakeholders of Capitalism -- Chapter 6: A Different Theory of Civil Justice -- Chapter 7: Fetishism in Action -- Chapter 8: Equity Fetishism -- Chapter 9: Neoliberalism & Equity Fetishism -- Chapter 10: Law and the Reality it Masks
Summary This book is a provocative, interdisciplinary, and critical appraisal of civil justice, property, and the laws that shape and command them within capitalism. Dr. Herian's book is both a complementary and countervailing narrative to many mainstream legal accounts, one that critiques core and influential areas of legal knowledge and practice. Central to the book's thesis is a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives that consider what is at stake from institutions, concepts, and practices of equity and civil justice tied to the subjective psychic life and the unconscious desires of capitalist stakeholders. The book aims to address several questions, including how capitalism has imagined and shaped equity and civil justice since the nineteenth century; how capitalism acts as a well-spring of desire for forms of justice that wrap-around and sustain complex frameworks of private property power and ownership; and how equity supports agile neoliberal strategies of justice and reason in the twenty-first century. Dr. Robert Herian is Senior Lecturer at The Open University Law School (UK) and Co-Founder of the Equity and Trusts Research Network. Robert's research encompasses equity, trusts, and property law; psychoanalysis; legal history; critical theory and philosophy. He lives in Northwest England with his partner, Chloe, and their border terrier, Billy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 12, 2021)
Subject Equity.
Capitalism -- Philosophy
Civil rights.
Justice.
International relations.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Law and economics.
Social Justice
Human Rights
international relations.
Social justice
Law and economics
International relations
Human rights
Capitalism -- Philosophy
Civil rights
Equity
Justice
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030665234
3030665232