Abstract
This article explores the growing significance and theoretical implications of ‘local rules’—such as Chinese labour standards, US financial regulation and Swiss bank secrecy rules—in the global economy. In particular, the argument developed is that Ronald Coase’s framework for analysing the effects of legal rules on economic welfare can help to reveal important weaknesses in current international legal approaches to analysing the transnational impact of local rules as well as contribute to a ‘global economic policy perspective’ better attuned to problems of power in the global regulatory order. Such a perspective will help us to see the effects of power differences among political and economic actors in the global economy more clearly, and perhaps also to develop new and more complex notions of economic participation, political pluralism and distributive justice in the creation and operation of both the local and the international rules that comprise the global economic regulatory order.
Keywords
Local rules, legal rules, economics, institutions, global welfare, transnational, Coase
Subject Categories
Economics, Globalization, Local laws
Disciplines
International Law | Political Economy
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication Date
3-2010
Rights Information
Author retains copyright.
Rights Holder
Dan Danielsen
Permanent URL
http://hdl.handle.net/2047/d20001173
Recommended Citation
1 Transnational Legal Theory 49 (2010)
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Notes
Originally published in Transnational Legal Theory, v.1, no.1, pp.49-115, March 2010.