Cargando…
Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency /
"Which SUVs are most likely to roll over? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Which SUVs are most likely to roll over? What cities have the unhealthiest drinking water? Which factories are the most dangerous polluters? What cereals are most nutritious? In recent decades, governments have sought to provide answers to such critical questions through public disclosure to force manufacturers, water authorities, and others to improve their products and practices. Corporate financial disclosure, nutritional labels, and school report cards are examples of such targeted transparency policies. At best, they create a light-handed approach to governance that improves markets, enriches public disclosure, and empowers citizens. But such policies are frequently ineffective or counterproductive. Using an analysis of eighteen U.S. and international policies, Full Disclosure shows that the information provided is often incomplete, incomprehensible, or irrelevant to consumers, investors, workers, and community residents. To be successful, transparency policies must be accurate, must keep ahead of disclosers' efforts to find loopholes, and, above all, must focus on the needs of ordinary citizens."--Jacket |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-273) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511275005 9780511275005 9780511510533 0511510535 0511273479 9780511273476 9780511275708 0511275706 9786610815876 6610815879 9780511274268 0511274262 9781107172463 1107172462 9781280815874 1280815876 |