Who governs? legislatures, bureaucracies, or markets? /

When we start to perceive that there is a problem in the market (such as monopoly, fraud or speculation), the legislature passes a law to correct it, a bureaucracy is created to interpret and enforce the new law, firms and other market participants comply, and the problem is solved. But is it? Are p...

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Main Author: Wood, John H.
Other Authors: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Cham : 2020.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 pages).
Series: Palgrave studies in American economic history.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Securities Act of 1933
  • 3. Bureaucracies
  • 4. The NYSE and the SEC
  • 5. Central Banking in the United States
  • 6. Chairman of the Fed
  • 7. So Who Governs?