(Ebook) Law and Sustainability Reshaping the Socio-Economic Order Through Economic and Technological Innovation by Koen Byttebier, Kim van der Borght ISBN 9783030926199, 3030926192

(Ebook) Law and Sustainability Reshaping the Socio-Economic Order Through Economic and Technological Innovation by Koen Byttebier, Kim van der Borght ISBN 9783030926199, 3030926192

This book deals with some aspects of the future shape of the socio-economic order which would be founded on sustainability principles and the role of law therein, instead of on the prevailing capitalist economic order. The volume elaborates in particular on how innovation, a crucial aspect of free-market capitalism and its laws which constitute the current socio-economic order, could result in a more sustainable economy which, in turn, could lead to a more sustainable society. Moreover, the book analyses current developments in financial and economic law and evaluates their perks, risks and sustainability levels.The book contains no less than 11 chapters in which a variety of experts share their state-of-the-art insights regarding specific domains of socio-economic life. As such, the book deals with topics that are at present fully under debate in societies, such as student credit and the dangers it entails, crypto­currencies and how the law tries to regulate this basically private law instrument, groups of companies under Belgian (company) law, a proposal for improving the international monetary system, and seeds and intellectual property rights, besides various other similar themes.