Synopses & Reviews
Regulation has been stimulated by industrialization and particularly by the advent of the consumer economy. The book draws on international scholarship in sociology, political science, law, and economics on the working and regulation, both public and private, in many areas of business to map the reality of regulation, and to identify why it sometimes fails and how it can succeed.
Review
This is a well-written, intelligent review of regulation, with a liberal, optimistic bias.
-Contemporary Sociology, Laureen Snider
About the Author
Michael Clarke is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Liverpool
Table of Contents
The Rise of the Regulatory Society * Private Regulation: From the Acceptable to the Unacceptable Face of Capitalism * The Professions * State Regulation: Achieving Ascendancy * Compliance and Enforcement * Ineffective Regulation * International Regulation * The Future of Regulation