The Financial Crisis in Constitutional Perspective : the Dark Side of Functional Differentiation (Hardcover)

Introduction Poul F Kjaer SECTION I: The Financial Crisis in a Systemic Perspective 1. A Constitutional Moment? The Logics of 'Hitting the Bottom' Gunther Teubner 2. Towards a General Theory of Function System Crises Rudolf Stichweh SECTION II: Dynamics Section II.1: The Breakdown of Expectations 3. The Financial Market Crisis-a Case of Network Failure? Karl-Heinz Ladeur 4. Death by Complexity-the Financial Crisis and the Crisis of Law in World Society Moritz Renner 5. Political Epidemiology and the Financial Crisis Urs Staheli Section II.2: Fundamental Crises of society 6. The Return of Crisis Hauke Brunkhorst 7. The Culture Form of Crisis Dirk Baecker 8. What is a Crisis? Jean Clam SECTION III: Reactions Section III.1: Regulatory Reactions 9. Eroding Boundaries: On Financial Crisis and an Evolutionary Concept of Regulatory Reform Marc Amstutz 10. The Failure of Regulatory Institutions-a Conceptual Framework Alberto Febbrajo Section III.2: Individual and Collective Reactions 11. Struggles for Law: Global Social Rights as an Alternative to Financial Market Capitalism Kolja Moller 12. The Ethics of the Financial Crisis Aldo Mascareno Section III.3: Constitutional Transformation 13. The Future of the State Chris Thornhill 14. Law and Order within and Beyond National Configurations Poul F Kjaer