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Economics faculty member Jamee K. Moudud recently published Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: the End of Laissez Faire? as part of Routledge’s Economics as Social Theory series. Drawing on the insights of the American Legal Realists and Original Institutional Economics, the book argues that the “free market” or the notion of laissez faire constitutes the foundational myth of capitalism. The book discusses the implications of this framework for the Washington Consensus, social and international inequalities, Project 2025 and far right politics, and climate change, and explores the politics of law and how that is inflected by relations of power, language, and culture.