Legal and Policy Responses for Addressing a World in Turmoil

Dear Colleagues,

The world is in great turmoil.

This is partly the result of decades of sustained neoliberal policies, as a result of which the ruling class of entrepreneurs have been given absolute license to reform the world into a system where everything and everyone has become a function of their selfish pursuit of ever-greater wealth, to which all other societal values have been systematically sacrificed.

A silver lining to the dark clouds that are engulfing the world is that, for a number of years now, there has been a growing backlash against the destructive forces of economic neoliberalism, albeit that this backlash is mainly limited to protest movements by young people (among others) on the one hand, and to work in the academic sphere on the other.

This call for papers addresses the latter group of academics who are invited to submit papers representing the fruit of their respective research in this area. The call focuses on critical research on the prevailing socio-economic order and the economic policies that underlie it.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Koen Byttebier
Prof. Dr. Kim Van Der Borght
Guest Editors

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• global institutional crises (e.g., WTO)
• food crisis
• energy crisis
• monetary crisis