Governance amid bigger, better markets / John D. Donahue, Joseph S. Nye, Jr., editors ; Visions of Governance in the 21st Century.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Visions of Governance in the 21st Century (Program)

Donahue, John D.

Nye, Joseph S., Jr., 1937-2025.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Corporate governance.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A Brookings Institution Press and Visions of Governance for the 21st Century publication 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 volume--the latest publication from the Visions of Governance in the 21st Century program at the Kennedy School of Government--explores 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-Iba#65533;ez and John R. Meyer on transportation, William Hogan on electric power, Paul E. Peterson on K-12 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-Sch#65533;nberger 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.

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 GameInformation Law amid Bigger, Better Markets; GovernmentÌs Role When Markets Rule; The Market versus the Forum; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8157-9846-6

OCLC:

53371698