Tag Archives: deregulation

Marketcraft as the New Statecraft

Posted on March 11, 2018 by Oleg Komlik

by Steven K. Vogel* What if we thought of marketcraft (market governance) as a core government function comparable to statecraft? And what if we sought to optimize market governance rather than to minimize government intervention? I submit that this simple … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Community members posts | Tagged deregulation, embeddedness, institutional change, institutions, liberalization, markets, Political economy, Regulatory State, state | 1 Comment

“Lobbying America: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA” tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970s and 1980s.

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

The book traces the rise and efforts to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business’s political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged business associations, deregulation, interest groups, lobbying, neoliberalism, Political economy, politics, power, regulatory capture, United States | Leave a comment

There is strong support across academics that maximizing ‪‎shareholder‬ value provides a problematic basis for the practice, theory, and regulation of corporate governance.

Posted on February 28, 2014 by Oleg Komlik

The Modern Corporation project seeks your support for a number of disciplinary memos on maximizing shareholder value and the effects of contemporary corporate governance theory more broadly. The members of the modern corporation project, hosted by Cardiff Business School and … Continue reading →

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Age of Greed and Neoliberal Creed: the Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Oleg Komlik

Age of Greed by Jeff Madrick is a fascinating and deeply disturbing tale of hypocrisy, corruption, and insatiable greed; it is a much-needed reminder of how we got into the 2007-8 financial crisis after the four-decade sweeping march of neoliberalism. … Continue reading →