Selling Hope, Selling Risk - Corporations, Wall Street, and the Dilemmas of Investor Protection

Informationen zum Autor Donald C. Langevoort is the Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He was formerly a staff member of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, and has also taught at Vanderbilt University and as a visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Michigan. He is the author of numerous books and articles, many of which seek to integrate insights from psychology into corporate and securities law. He has testified numerous times before Congress on securities-related issues. Klappentext We have doubts today about how well that task of investor protection is being performed. This book represents the first sustained effort to link the key initiatives of securities regulation with our burgeoning awareness in the social sciences of how people and organizations really behave in a financial world that is at once increasingly sophisticated yet deeply human and incurably flawed. Zusammenfassung We have doubts today about how well that task of investor protection is being performed. This book represents the first sustained effort to link the key initiatives of securities regulation with our burgeoning awareness in the social sciences of how people and organizations really behave in a financial world that is at once increasingly sophisticated yet deeply human and incurably flawed. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Myths and Skepticism Chapter 2: Making Sense of Corporate Fraud Chapter 3: The Insider's Edge Chapter 4: The Partial Disinfectant of Sunlight Chapter 5: Selling and Swindling Chapter 6: Lessons from the Financial Crisis Conclusion: Chasing the Greased Pig

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• Authors: Donald C Langevoort, Donald C. Langevoort, Donald C. (Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Pro Langevoort, Donald C. (Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor of Law Langevoort, Langevoort Donald C.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9780190225667
• ISBN: 978-0-19-022566-7
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; USA, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, United States of America, USA, Insurance & actuarial studies, Investment & securities, Investment and securities, Insurance and actuarial studies