Corporate governance : promises kept, promises broken /

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Author / Creator:Macey, Jonathan R.
Imprint:Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12314584
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ISBN:9781400829781
140082978X
1282157116
9781282157118
0691129991
9780691129990
1282158104
9781282158108
9786612158100
6612158107
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-323) and index.
English.
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Summary:Even in the wake of the biggest financial crash of the postwar era, the United States continues to rely on Securities and Exchange Commission oversight and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which set tougher rules for boards, management, and public accounting firms to protect the interests of shareholders. Such reliance is badly misplaced. In Corporate Governance, Jonathan Macey argues that less government regulation--not more--is what's needed to ensure that managers of public companies keep their promises to investors. Macey tells how heightened government oversight has put a stranglehold on what is t.
Other form:Print version: Macey, Jonathan R. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691129990