Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played by global institutions such as the WTO, the OECD, IMF, Moody's and the World Bank, as well as various NGOs and significant individuals. The authors argue that effective and decent global regulation depends on the determination of individuals to engage with powerful agendas and decision-making bodies that would otherwise be dominated by concentrated economic interests. This book will become a standard reference for readers in business, law, politics and international relations.
- Based on interviews with 500 international leaders
- Offers a political program for active world citizenship
- First comprehensive reference book of its kind
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Awards
- Winner of The Hart Socio-Legal Studies Book Prize
Reviews & endorsements
'The authors [of this book] argue that global business regulations emerge from various 'epistemic' communities - communities of experts that meet regularly all over the world. They have a shared understanding of regulation in any particular sphere that leads them not merely to advise but to direct as well … In effect, the book suggests that the world is run from a few important cities - in particular New York, Washington, Brussels, Geneva - where these communities are important and congregate. The authors interviewed 500 international leaders in business and government to produce the 700-page book … which contains 13 case studies - ranging from property and contract, financial regulation, corporations and securities to the environment, food, telecommunications, drugs, sea, road and air transport. These are sandwiched between a broad-ranging introduction and analytical conclusion dealing with the core issues of globalisation.' Financial Times
'This is a highly stimulating book, full of valuable information collected from a wide variety of sources.' Gavin McFarlane, New Law Journal
'I find it a work of outstanding scholarship with an engaging tone, peppered with amusing turns of phrase and observations.' Peter Standish, Swinburne University of Technology
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Product details
- Date Published: February 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521784993
- length: 724 pages
- dimensions: 246 x 189 x 37 mm
- weight: 1.27kg
- contains: 9 b/w illus. 3 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. The historical canvas
2. Globalization and regulation
3. Method
4. Concepts: mechanisms, principles and actors
5. Conclusions
6. The struggle for a sovereignty of the people
Part II. Cases:
7. Property and contract
8. Financial regulation
9. Corporations and securities
10. Trade and competition
11. Labour standards
12. The environment
13. Nuclear energy
14. Telecommunications
15. Drugs
16. Food
17. Sea transport
18. Road transport
19. Air transport
Part III. Analysis:
20. Contests of actors
21. Contests of principles
22. Mechanisms of globalization
23. Regulatory webs and globalization sequences
24. Forum-shifting and contests of principles
25. Modelling, globalization and the politics of empowerment
26. A political program for sovereignty over global regulation.
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Authors
John Braithwaite, Australian National University, Canberra
Peter Drahos, Queen Mary University of London
Awards
- Winner of The Hart Socio-Legal Studies Book Prize