Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises

ISBN 10: 1107140218 / ISBN 13: 9781107140219

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2017

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• Titolo: Policy Shock: Recalibrating Risk and Regulation after Oil Spills, Nuclear Accidents and Financial Crises
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1107140218
• ISBN 13: 9781107140219
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: Very Good

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In this book, compelling case studies show how past crises have reshaped regulation, and how policy-makers can learn from crises in the future.

Informazioni sugli autori

Edward J. Balleisen is Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor of History at Duke University, North Carolina. A historian of regulatory governance in the United States, his latest book is Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (2017). He received his Ph.D. from Yale University, Connecticut.

Lori S. Bennear is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy at Duke University, North Caroline where she is also the Co-Director of the Rethinking Regulation Program at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and the Faculty Lead in Energy Education at the Energy Initiative. Her research focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of flexible environmental policies including information disclosure regulations, management-based regulations, liability regimes and demand-side management programs. Her works spans environmental domains including toxics, drinking water and energy. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Kimberly D. Krawiec is the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor of Law at Duke University, North Carolina where she teaches courses on corporate law and financial regulation. Her research centers on the regulation of financial markets, 'taboo' or contested markets and business organizations. Current work examines boards of directors, organ donation and allocation systems, and the administrative process surrounding the Volcker Rule, a provision of Dodd-Frank. She has served as a commentator for the Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI) of the American Bar Association and on the faculty of the National Association of Securities Dealers Institute for Professional Development at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Jonathan B. Wiener is the Perkins Professor of Law and Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy at Duke University, North Carolina. He co-directs the program on Rethinking Regulation at Duke. He is a University Fellow of Resources for the Future (RFF). He served as President of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) in 2008, and co-chair of the World Congress on Risk in 2012. His books include Risk vs Risk (1995), Reconstructing Climate Policy (2003) and The Reality of Precaution: Comparing Risk Regulation in the United States and Europe (2011). Previously he served at the US Department of Justice, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). He helped negotiate the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) between 1990 and 1992, and helped draft Executive Order 12866 on regulatory review (1993). He clerked for federal judges Stephen G. Breyer (1988–89) and Jack B. Weinstein (1987–88). He received his J.D. (1987) and A.B. (1984, economics) from Harvard University, Massachusetts.