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100			_aPicciotto, Sol
245			_aRegulation: managing the antinomies of economic vice and virtue
260			_c2017
300			_ap.676-699.
362			_aDec
520			_aIn the quarter-century that Social & Legal Studies has been published, regulation has emerged as a new, and for many exciting, interdisciplinary field. The concept itself requires a wider view of normativity than the narrow positivist one of law as command. It is certainly protean, ranging over many fundamental questions about the changing nature of the public sphere of politics and the state, and its interactions with the ﾑprivateﾒ sphere of economic activity and social relations, as well as the mediation of these interactions, especially through law. This survey aims to outline and evaluate some of the main contours of the field as it has developed in this recent period, focusing on the regulation of economic activity. Regulation is seen as having emerged with the withdrawal by governments from direct provision of many economic and social services, to be replaced by corporatist bureaucracies and quasi-public agencies managing the complex publicﾖprivate interactions of financialized capitalism. The arguments for ﾑsmartﾒ regulation have, in an era fixated on neo-liberalism, generally legitimized delegation of responsibility to big business. Its advocates, having been drawn into policy fields, have perhaps too often lost their critical edge, and allowed it to become instrumentalized, reflecting the technicist character of its practice. - R
650			_aGovernance
650			_aCorporations
650			_aRegulation
773			_aSocial & Legal Studies
909			_a116543
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