Insider Trading
Subtitle: Law, Ethics, and Reform
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 07, 2018
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9781316603406
Description: "As long as insider trading has existed, people have been fixated on it. Newspapers give it front-page coverage. Cult movies romanticize it. Politicians make or break careers by pillorying, enforcing, and sometimes engaging in it. But, oddly, no one seems to know what's really wrong with insider trading, or-because Congress has never defined it-exactly what it is. This confluence of vehemence and confusion has led to a dysfunctional enforcement regime in the United States that runs counter to its stated goals of efficiency and fairness. In this illuminating book, John P. Anderson summarizes the current state of insider trading law in the U.S. and around the globe. After engaging in a thorough analysis of the practice of insider trading from the normative standpoints of economic efficiency, moral right and wrong, and virtue theory, he offers concrete proposals for much-needed reform"--

"As long as insider trading has existed, people have been fixated on it. Newspapers give it front-page coverage. Cult movies romanticize it"--
Notes: Source title: Insider Trading: Law, Ethics, and Reform