Ethics of Socioeconomics

Koen Byttebier holds a law degree (University of Ghent, 1989) and a doctoral degree obtained with a dissertation on ho­sti­le takeovers (University of Ghent, 1992). In 1992, he was appointed as a post­doctoral researcher (FWO) at the University of Ghent, before joining the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 1994. Pre­sently, he is a full Professor of Law (holding the degree of ‘Ordinary Professor’) in the De­partment of Pri­vate and Economic Law, VUB.Koen Byttebier is the author of more than 30 research monographs and of nu­me­rous articles. He speaks regularly at na­tio­nal and in­­­ter­na­tional conferences. In his capacity as a (part-time) practi­cing lawyer, he has been consulted by both the Belgian Federal Go­vernment and the Flemish Government, for which he has pre­­pared and drafted a wi­de variety of new le­gislation, amongst which the Belgian Code of Economic Law, in addition to ac­­complishing some major re­structuring operations.As of 2014, Koen Byttebier has published a variety of major international publications. He increasingly focused on research questioning the foundations of capitalism and began urging for a drastically different approach to the socioeconomic order. This paved the way to groundbreaking English-language research in this field, with, meanwhile, five English-language research monographs, published by Springer and VUBPRESS, in addition to publications in journals and referee books and invitations to various lectures. His 2017 monography Towards a New International Monetary Order implied an important breakthrough in this research, followed by various other English research monographs.

• Chapter 1. The principles of capitalism questioned.- Chapter 2. Revisiting some building blocks of contemporary capitalism that center selfishness.- Chapter 3. Unsustainability of the capitalist socio-economic order.- Chapter 4. Revisiting an alternative method of money creation on behalf of states and certain, international, and supranational institutions as a possible way out of capitalism.- Chapter 5. From neoliberal punitive states to states of care.- Chapter 6. Alternative methods of money creation for the benefit of the private sectors.- Chapter 7. Conceptualization and sense of reality of some new, legal models for conducting an enterprise.- Chapter 8. Final Conclusions I: Capitalism as an unjust system of socio-economic order.- Chapter 9. Final Conclusions II: Establishing a new monetary order as a foundation for a new type of societies.