Global Business Regulation
Global Business Regulation
Peter Drahos, Queen Mary University of London
$82.00
USDHow has the regulation of business shifted from national to global institutions? What are the mechanisms of globalization? Who are the key actors? What of democratic sovereignty? In which cases has globalization been successfully resisted?
These questions are confronted across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation--from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labor standards, drugs, food, transport and environment. This book examines the role played by global institutions such as the World Trade Organization, World Health Organization, the OECD, IMF, Moodys and the World Bank, as well as various NGOs and significant individuals.
Incorporating both history and analysis, Global Business Regulation will become the standard reference for readers in business, law, politics, and international relations.
- First comprehensive reference book of its kind
- Based on interviews with 500 international leaders
- Offers a political program for active world citizenship
Reviews & endorsements
"...the manuscript is very digestible, presenting an easy to read and engrossing story, and a reader who starts is likely to finish the book in its entirety." Law Society Journal
Product details
February 2000Paperback
9780521784993
724 pages
246 × 189 × 37 mm
1.27kg
9 b/w illus. 3 tables
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.
