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In Innovation and the State, Cristie Ford examines the problem of innovation and its relationship to flexible regulation.
List of contents
1. Innovation as a regulatory challenge: four stories; 2. The history and rots of flexible regulation; 3. Flexible regulation: key scholarship; 4. Flexible regulation scholarship, 1980-2012; 5. Flexible regulation and ideology; 6. Innovation as regulatory subject; 7. Seismic innovation; 8. Innovation as sedimentary layers; 9. Conclusion.
About the author
Cristie Ford is Associate Professor and Director at the Centre for Business Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She is an internationally recognised scholar in the fields of financial regulation and regulatory theory. She has written, lectured and consulted extensively on financial regulation and was previously editor of the journal Regulation and Governance. She is also a co-author of the leading securities regulation text in Canada.
Summary
An investigation into the problem of innovation and its relationship to flexible regulation. Ford uses the financial crisis to demonstrate the importance of clarifying what constitutes valid and meaningful innovation for preventing similar unintended disasters. The book is for those interested in administrative and financial law, political science, finance and governance.
