LEADER 06165nam 22006491c 450 001 9910459312903321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-6069-8 010 $a1-282-65947-2 010 $a9786612659478 010 $a1-84731-559-3 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472560698 035 $a(CKB)2670000000032306 035 $a(EBL)554855 035 $a(OCoLC)651601686 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12183065 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10408837 035 $a(PQKB)10576503 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772648 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC554855 035 $a(OCoLC)1057401927 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09255792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL554855 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000032306 100 $a20140929d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe constitutional protection of capitalism $fDanny Nicol 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford $cHart Publishing $d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-859-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $a1 Transnational Regimes and the Constitution -- Two Conceptions of Neoliberalism -- The Idea of a Constitution -- A Revolution from Above -- Transnational Constitutionalism as Insurance -- The Criterion of Democracy -- The British Model and Contestability -- The British Model and Relative Ideological Neutrality -- The British Model and Accountability -- Limited Democracy: The Triumph of Hayek -- Transnational Democracy: Hayek's Heirs? -- Markets as Democracy? -- British Exceptionalism? Britain, France and the Ratchet Effect -- The Ambit of the Argument -- 2 The World Trade Organisation and the Sanctity of Private Enterprise -- Assessing the WTO -- Britain and GATT 1947 -- GATT: Evolving towards Bindingness -- From GATT to WTO -- The World Trade Organization -- WTO: The Dispute Settlement Understanding -- The Terms of WTO -- GATT and Related Agreements -- GATS -- Public Procurement -- Subsidies -- Conclusion -- 3 The European Union: A Faithful Expression of the Capitalist Ideal? -- The Original Indeterminacy of the European Project: Article 345 TFEU -- Resolving the Indeterminacy -- EU Law as British Constitutional Law -- The Free Movement of Goods: Control of Imports -- Cassis de Dijon -- Goods, Regulation and the Corporate Role in Constitution-Building -- Standardisation: A Privatisation of Governance? -- Free Movement Rights versus Social Rights -- From Free Movement to a European Economic Policy -- Public Monopolies and Privatisation -- Article 106 TFEU -- EU Legislation -- Public Procurement -- State Aid -- Defining State Aid: Article 107(1) TFEU -- Justifying State Aid: Article 107(3) TFEU -- State Aid and the Credit Crunch -- Neoliberalism and the Open Method of Co-ordination -- Conclusion -- 4 'The Fundamental Right of the Well-to-Do': Property as a Human Right -- Human Rights at the Service of Neoliberalism -- Property and Democracy: Four Possibilities -- Disagreements over the Right of Property Ownership, 1950-51 -- Predominant Purpose of the Property Right: The Protection of Existing Entitlements -- Transforming the Property Right -- The Concept of 'Fair Balance' -- 'Fair Balance' Fused with Proportionality -- Proportionality and Compensation -- The Elasticity of 'General Principles of International Law' -- Compliance: The Evolution of Effective Enforcement -- Conclusion -- 5 Neoliberalism as the Constitution -- The Binding of Parliament -- Dismantling the Teleological State 330 8 $aIn 1945 a Labour government deployed Britain's national autonomy and parliamentary sovereignty to nationalise key industries and services such as coal, rail, gas and electricity, and to establish a publicly-owned National Health Service. This monograph argues that constitutional constraints stemming from economic and legal globalisation would now preclude such a programme. It contends that whilst no state has ever, or could ever, possess complete freedom of action, nonetheless the rise of the transnational corporation means that national autonomy is now siginificantly restricted. The book focuses in particular on the way in which these economic constraints have been nurtured, reinforced and legitimised by the creation on the part of world leaders of a globalised constitutional law of trade and competition. This has been brought into existence by the adoption of effective enforcement machinery, sometimes embedded within the nation states, sometimes formed at transnational level. With Britain enmeshed in supranational economic and legal structures from which it is difficult to extricate itself, the British polity no longer enjoys the range and freedom of policymaking once open to it. Transnational legal obligations constitute not just law but in effect a de facto supreme law entrenching a predominantly neoliberal political settlement in which the freedom of the individual is identified with the freedom of the market. The book analyses the key provisions of WTO, EU and ECHR law which provide constitutional protection for private enterprise. It dwells on the law of services liberalisation, public monopolies, state aid, public procurement and the fundamental right of property ownership, arguing that the new constitutional order compromises the traditional ideals of British democracy 606 $aCorporations$xFinance$xLaw and legislation$zGreat Britain 606 $2Constitutional & administrative law 606 $aLaw and globalization$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic policy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCorporations$xFinance$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aLaw and globalization 676 $a343.410721 700 $aNicol$b Danny$0855629 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459312903321 996 $aThe constitutional protection of capitalism$92444345 997 $aUNINA