Governance amid Bigger, Better Markets.
Title:
Governance amid Bigger, Better Markets.
Author:
Nye, Joseph S.
ISBN:
9780815798460
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (364 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Contents -- Market Ascendancy and the Challenge of Governance -- PART I Bigger, Better Markets - Cases in Point -- Lessons from the Medical Marketplace -- Government and Markets in Transport: The U. S. Experience with Deregulation -- Making Markets in Electric Power -- PART II Experiments and Puzzles -- Choice and Competition in KÒ 12 Education -- The Shape of the Network -- Deposit Insurance: An Outmoded Lifeboat in TodayÌs Sea of Liquidity -- The Market for Truth -- The Marketization of American Politics? -- PART III Governing Well When Markets Rule -- New Economy, Old Politics: High- Technology Industry and the Influence Game -- Information Law amid Bigger, Better Markets -- GovernmentÌs Role When Markets Rule -- The Market versus the Forum -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Changing markets are challenging governance. The growing scale, reach, complexity, and popular legitimacy of market institutions and market players are re-opening old questions about the role of the public sector and redefining what it means to govern well. This volumethe latest publication from the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Governmentexplores the way evolving markets alter the pursuit of cherished public goals. John D. Donahue and Joseph S. Nye, Jr. frame the inquiry with an essay on governing well in an age of ascendant markets. Other contributors (all from Harvard's Kennedy School unless otherwise indicated) address specific areas of market governance in individual chapters: Joseph P. Newhouse on the medical marketplace, Jose Gomez-Ibañez and John R. Meyer on transportation, William Hogan on electric power, Paul E. Peterson on K12 education, L. Jean Camp on information networks, Akash Deep and Guido Schaefer (Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration) on federal deposit insurance, Frederick Schauer on "the marketplace of ideas," Anna Greenberg on the "marketization" of politics, David M. Hart on the politics of high-tech industry, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger on information law, John D. Donahue and Richard J. Zeckhauser on the challenges posed by fast-changing markets, and Mark Moore on the spread of market ideology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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