Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency /
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Governance by transparency
- The new power of information
- Transparency informs choice
- Transparency as missed opportunity
- A real-time experiment
- Transparency success and failure
- How the book is organized
- 2. An unlikely policy innovation
- An unplanned invention
- The struggle toward openness
- Why disclosure?
- 3. Designing transparency policies
- Improving on-the-job safety : one goal, many methods
- Disclosure to create incentives for change
- What targeted transparency policies have in common
- Standards, market incentives, or targeted transparency?
- 4. What makes transparency work?
- A complex chain reaction
- New information embedded in user decisions
- New information embedded in discloser decisions
- Obstacles : preferences, biases, and games
- How do transparency policies measure up?
- Crafting effective transparency policies
- 5. What makes transparency sustainable?
- Crisis drives financial disclosure improvements
- Sustainable policies
- The politics of disclosure
- Humble beginnings : prospects for sustainable transparency
- Two illustrations
- Shifting conditions drive changes in sustainability
- 6. International transparency
- How do international transparency policies work?
- Why now?
- From private committee to public mandate : international corporate financial reporting
- Improving a moribund system : international disease reporting
- The limits of international transparency : labeling genetically modified foods
- 7. Toward collaborative transparency
- Innovation at the edge
- Technology expands capacities of users, disclosers, and government
- Four emerging policies
- Challenges to collaborative transparency
- New roles for users, disclosers, and government
- Looking ahead : complementary generations of transparency
- 8. Targeted transparency in the information age
- Two possible futures
- When transparency won't work
- Crafting effective policies
- The road ahead
- Appendix : eighteen major cases
- Targeted transparency in the United States
- Targeted transparency in the international context.