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Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Volume 11, 2015

Approaching the Econo-Socio-Legal

Abstract

This article offers a systematic introduction to a body of historical and contemporary research that is distinctive in its commitment to the observations that the economy and the law are mutually constitutive, and that both are in turn mutually constitutive of wider social life, including that part of social life relating to how we think and communicate about the econo-socio-legal. The aim is to offer a framework for approaching econo-socio-legal thinking and practice from the past, present, and future.

Keyword(s): development, economics, law, sociology
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