The Emergence of International Economic Law

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New liberalism was actually about encasing or protecting markets from democratic control, you argue. Since the 19 seventies there has been a proliferation of legal instruments to push trade and investment in one way but not others. So this pushes us away from the idea of neo liberalism as d regulation, which i think is really misleading. Pushes us away from market fundamentalism on the premise that we have anything that could be called a free market or a disembedded market.

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