Descrizione del progetto
La legge a sostegno di pratiche economiche non estrattive
La spettacolare crescita dell’economia globale oggi è associata ad alcune conseguenze collaterali quali l’aumento della disuguaglianza, l’aumento dei migranti climatici e dei rifugiati e danni significativi all’ambiente. Di conseguenza, sono emerse nuove proposte economiche e sociali ispirate a pratiche economiche non estrattive, quali l’economia circolare e la limitazione della crescita a favore dello sviluppo sostenibile. Tuttavia, i sistemi economici esistenti, i comportamenti di acquisto, i quadri normativi e la retorica politica considerano tali proposte impraticabili e utopiche. Il progetto N-EXTLAW, finanziato dall’UE, propone uno studio che miri a mostrare come il diritto privato possa rendere tali radicali proposte politicamente affidabili, fornendo idee politiche e strumenti legali che renderanno attraenti e realistiche le pratiche economiche non estrattive.
Obiettivo
The current economic model is overdue for revision. The relentless focus on economic growth is ravaging the environment, and the concomitant social problems have either already reached glaring levels (rocketing global inequality) or seem poised to do so (climate displaced persons). A number of radical proposals, such as prosperity without growth, circular economy, or doughnut economics, have been proposed to chart a trajectory towards socio-ecological transformation, arguing that a profound change in our ways of living and modes of production is necessary in order to respond to the threats we face. Yet such proposals, however commendable, have gained only modest political traction, insofar as they seem unthinkable from the vantage point of our current economic system, consumption patterns, political discourse and legal institutions.
This project will show how law can contribute to making such transformative projects politically credible. More specifically, it will demonstrate how law, and private law in particular, can be used to nurture those existing economic practices that already build on the environmental and social aspirations embodied by such projects. The two main objectives are, first, to offer a set of legal tools and policy proposals that would make the adoption of environmentally and socially non-extractive economic practices, such as social cooperatives or solidary financial institutions, more attractive for people to implement. Second, N-EXTLAW theorizes how law can turn seemingly utopian projects for socio-ecological transformation into a realistic legal-political project. By refashioning the concrete socio-legal arrangements for pursuing non-extractive economic practices as well as re-shaping the values on which economic decision-making draws, law can make non-extractive economic practices more present in everyday action, and thereby uphold those cultural frames that affirm the sense that socio-ecological transformation is within our reach.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
1012WX Amsterdam
Paesi Bassi