【2015新书】No Freedom without Regulation: The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
Book 图书名称: No Freedom without Regulation: The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
Author 作者: Joseph William Singer
Publisher 出版社: Yale University Press
Page 页数: 224
Publishing Date 出版时间: Sep 8, 2015
Language 语言: English
Size 大小: 0.6 MB
Format 格式: pdf 文字版
ISBN: 0300211678, 9780300211672
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛,没有该文档
Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation means less freedom. Joseph William Singer, one of the world’s most respected experts on property law, explains why this understanding of regulation is simply wrong. While analysts as ideologically divided as Alan Greenspan and Joseph Stiglitz have framed regulatory questions as a matter of governments versus markets, Singer reminds us of what we’ve willfully forgotten: government is not inherently opposed to free markets or private property, but is, in fact, necessary to their very existence. Singer uses the recent subprime crisis to demonstrate:
Regulation’s essential importance for freedom and democracyWhy consumer protection laws are a basic pillar of economic freedomHow private property rests on a regulatory infrastructureWhy liberals and conservatives actually agree on these relationships far more than they disagree This concise volume is essential reading for policy makers, philosophers, political theorists, economists, and financial professionals on both sides of the aisle.