Local Rules and a Global Economy: An Economic Policy Perspective

Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-115, March 2010

Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 64-2011

68 Pages Posted: 21 Dec 2011

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Dan Danielsen

Northeastern University - School of Law

Date Written: December 7, 2011

Abstract

This article explores the growing significance and theoretical implications of ‘local rules’ — such as Chinese labor 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 analyzing the effects of legal rules on economic welfare can help to reveal important weaknesses in current international legal approaches to analyzing 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.

Suggested Citation

Danielsen, Dan, Local Rules and a Global Economy: An Economic Policy Perspective (December 7, 2011). Transnational Legal Theory, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 49-115, March 2010, Northeastern University School of Law Research Paper No. 64-2011, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1969366

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