Stocks for All: People's Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century / Petri Mäntysaari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mäntysaari, Petri, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commercial law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 884 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad historical study of the regulation of stock markets and companies in Europe and the US, the book proposes ways to create a new regulatory regime designed to help firms and facilitate people's capitalism. Through its comparative and historical study of regulation and legal practices, the book helps to understand the evolution of public stock markets from the nineteenth century to the present day. The book identifies design principles that reflect prior regulation. While continental European company law has produced many enduring design principles, the recent regulation of stock markets in the EU and the US has failed to serve the needs of both firms and retail investors. The book therefore proposes a new set of design principles to serve contemporary societal needs.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1 Introduction

PART I: The Evolution Of Design

2 Trends in Company Law

3 Trends in the Regulation of Stock Exchanges

4 Trends in Securities Law

5 Recent Market Practices

PART II: Future Design

6 Design Principles for an Alternative

7 Crowdfunding

8 Microexchanges

9 The Small Public Limited-Liability Company

10 Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 10. Jan 2022)

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783110761108

3110761106

OCLC:

1334105923