Xem mẫu
PersPectives edited by David Moss& John Cisternino
PersPectives
PersPectives
This work is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommercial– No Derivative Works 3.0 license. Readers are free to share, copy, distribute, and transmit the work under the following conditions: All excerpts must be attributed to: Moss, David, and John Cisternino, eds. New Perspectives on Regulation. Cambridge, MA;The Tobin Project, 2009.The authors and individual chapter titles for all excerpts must also be credited.This work may not be used for commercial purposes, nor may it be altered, transformed, or built upon without the express written consent of the Tobin Project, Inc. For any reuse or distribution, the license terms of this work must always be made clear to others: the license terms are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/.
Copyright © 2009 The Tobin Project, Inc. All rights reserved. For information address
The Tobin Project, One Miflin Place, Cambridge, MA 02138.
First Edition
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed in the United States of America This book is set in Adobe Caslon Pro.
Text design by Kristen Argenio/Ideal Design Co.
ISBN 978-0-9824788-0-6 (paperback)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data on file.
Visit www.tobinproject.org
Contents
5 preface Mitchell Weiss
7 introduction
David Moss and John Cisternino
11 chapter 1
Regulation and Failure Joseph Stiglitz
25 chapter 2
The Case for Behaviorally Informed Regulation Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
63 chapter 3
From Greenspan’s Despair to Obama’s Hope:The Scientific Basis of Cooperation as Principles of Regulation
Yochai Benkler
87 chapter 4
Government as Risk Manager Tom Baker and David Moss
111 chapter 5
Toward a Culture of Persistent Regulatory Experimentation and Evaluation
Michael Greenstone
127 chapter 6
The Promise and Pitfalls of Co-Regulation: How Governments Can Draw on Private Governance for Public Purpose
Edward J. Balleisen and Marc Eisner
151 chapter 7
The Principles of Embedded Liberalism: Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism
Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie
163 acknowledgments
preface
New Perspectives on Regulation
New research in the social sciences has yielded insights with important (but, as yet,largely unrecognized) implications for the government’s role in the economy. This new research holds the promise of enabling creative solutions to pressing problems. As the financial crisis unfolds and the global recession continues, the need to share these ideas beyond academia to inform policymaking and public debate has grown ever more urgent.
To this end,in the fall of 2008 the Tobin Project approached leading scholars in the social sciences with an unusual request: we asked them to think about the topic of economic regulation and share key insights from their fields in a manner that would be accessible to both policymakers and the public. Because we were concerned that a conventional literature survey might obscure as much as it revealed, we asked instead that the writers provide a broad sketch of the most promising research in their fields pertaining to regulation; that they identify guiding principles for policymakers wherever possible; that they animate these principles with concrete policy proposals;and,in general,that they keep academic language and footnotes to a minimum.
As if this weren’t a tall enough order, we asked these scholars for one more thing: because the need for informed debate on our nation’s problems is so great and the prospect of important new government action imminent,we asked that they prepare this new kind of essay on a compressed timeline measured in weeks rather than the many months or even years that traditional academic writing usually requires.
Fortunately, a group of leading scholars took up this challenge.This book is the product of their efforts, for which we are enormously grateful. In seven chapters,they condense lessons of a broad and varied swath of research and share insights for how we might address the financial crisis, ensure more enduring prosperity, and improve our regulatory institutions.
New Perspectives on Regulation is aimed primarily at citizens and public ser-vants,including our leaders in Washington,who are grappling with a crisis that conventional approaches didn’t predict and don’t yet seem able to solve.But the breadth and accessibility of the work should also make it an excellent starting
Preface 5
...
- tailieumienphi.vn
nguon tai.lieu . vn