Donatella Alessandrini - Value Making in International Economic Law and Regulation: Alternative Possibilities

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Alessandrini, Donatella, author.
Value making in international economic law and regulation : alternative possibilities / Donatella
Alessandrini.
ISBN 978-1-138-93674-4 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-1-315-67665-4 (ebk) 1. Trade regulation. 2. Foreign
trade regulation. 3. Value. 4. Profit. 5. Surplus value. 6. Economics--Political aspects. 7. Financial
risk management. 8. Derivative securities--Valuation. 9. Labor theory of value. I. Title.
K3840.A94 2016
338.521--dc23
2015030058

ISBN: 978-1-138-93674-4(hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-67665-4(ebk)

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Among the friends and colleagues who have made this book possible with their ideas, questions, images and readings, I would like to thank Paddy Ireland, Stacy Douglas, Hyo Yoon Kang, Rosemary Hunter, Nick Piska, Davina Cooper, Maria Drakopoulou, Jasper van Doreen, Serena Natile, Jose Bellido, Didi Herman, Sally Sheldon, Iain Ramsay, Emma Dowling, Ann Stewart, Rosie Harding, Connal Parsley, Ruth Fletcher, Ntina Tsouvala, Sarah Slowe, Vicky Conway, Irene Leon, Magdalena Leon, Rhadika Desai, Asta Zoykatite, Luis Eslava, Laura Binger, Simone Wong, Thanos Zartaloudis, Helen Carr, Mairead Enright, Sinead Ring and Will Mbioh; and in particular Emily Haslam, Maria Tsoukala, Anastasios Gaitanidis and Anisa de Jong.

I am grateful to the British Academy and Kent Law School for their financial support, and to the post-graduate research community at Kent for our weekly study group and the thought-provoking discussions that have sustained me in the final stage of writing.

I would also like to thank Iain Frame, Judy Fudge, Fiona Allon, Lisa Adkins, Anne Kovaleinen, Emilie Cloatre and Martyn Pickersgill for their generous feedback on portions of the book and earlier versions of the arguments; Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Luis Eslava for their wonderful help with the cover image of the book; Colin Perrin, Laura Muir, Glynis Dyson and Abigail Pukaniuk for their editorial advice and support; and Marie Selwood for her assistance with the final draft.

Special thanks to Fiona Macmillan, Toni Williams, Lorenzo Corsini and Suhraiya Jivraj for helping me work out ideas and arguments, and for their incredible support; to Kate Bedford, whose incisive feedback and wonderful friendship have been vital to the development of this project; to Brenna Bhandar for the many conversations within and outside our reading group, and for pushing me with crucial questions; and to Emily Grabham for engaging so generously and critically with the whole book. I cannot thank you enough for your encouragement, friendship, time and labour. I have not been able to do justice to all your comments but the book is much improved as a result of your feedback.

And finally I would like to thank Silvia Federici and Antonella Picchio, whose work has been a source of profound inspiration for this book, among other things.

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