http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200831-183723-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/of-dreams-nightmares-and-a-little-bit-of-hope/ Of Dreams, Nightmares, and a Little Bit of Hope - Contribution to the online symposium on Poul F. Kjær (ed), The law of political economy: Transformations in the function of law (CUP 2020) eng 2020-08-31 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 neoliberalism Political Economy Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 If there is one common if, perhaps, unsurprising thread in all contributions to this book, it is the affirmation that law is not just the epiphenomenal product of an underlying political economy, nor a mere handmaiden of capitalist reproduction, but a central, perhaps the central, element in it.