Capitalism, Culture, and Economic Regulation

Zusatztext 'important collection of essays'Wyn Grant! University of Warwick! Political Studies Klappentext This study explores the problems faced by governments of advanced capitalist nations in regulating their economies through legislation. Zusammenfassung Regulation is a universal feature of modern economic life. However, regulating the economies of advanced capitalist nations is a uniquely complex activity, crossing the boundaries between law, politics, and economics, and involving problems which affect both the regulator and the regulated.For this book, eminent lawyers and political scientists have contributed essays which analyse these problems by examining in detail the experience of regulation in different economies and diverse industries in capitalist Western Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors; Leigh Hancher, Michael Moran: Introduction; PART I: FINANCIAL REGULATION: Sol Picciotto: Slicing a shadow - Business taxation in an international framework; Michael Moran: Investor protection and the culture of capitalism; PART II: SECTORAL REGULATION: Leigh Hancher: Regulating drug prices: the German and British experience; Alan Cawson, Geoffrey Shepherd, Douglas Webber: Governments, markets, and regulation in the West European consumer electronics industry; Tony Prosser: Regulation of privatized enterprises: Institutions and procedures; Stephen Wilks: Corporate strategy and state support in the European motor industry; Cosmo Graham: Regulating the company; PART III: LABOUR MARKETS: Martin Rhodes: Whither regulation? 'Disorganized capitalism' and the West European labour market; PART IV: CONCLUSION: Leigh Hancher, Michael Moran: Organizing regulatory space

Product details

• Authors: Leigh (Assistant Director Hancher, Leigh Moran Hancher
• Assisted by: Leigh Hancher (Editor), Hancher Leigh (Editor), Michael Moran (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.1989
• EAN: 9780198275503
• ISBN: 978-0-19-827550-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Government-Industry Relations; Government-Industry Relations
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Labour / income economics, Political structure & processes, Labour Economics, Political structure and processes, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General