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Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis

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Description for Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis Paperback. Through the lens of the Asian Financial Crisis, this book documents how international organizations and national governments crafted legal responses, through corporate bankruptcy reforms, to the fragility of financial markets in East Asia and worldwide. Num Pages: 536 pages, 9 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: JPSN; LNPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 789. Weight in Grams: 703.

The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal reforms could help protect markets from financial breakdowns. Sitting at the nexus between the legal system and the market, corporate bankruptcy law ensures that the casualties of capitalism are treated in an orderly way.

Halliday and Carruthers show how global actors—including the IMF, World Bank, UN, and international professional associations—developed comprehensive norms for corporate bankruptcy laws and how national policymakers responded in turn. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in China, Indonesia and Korea, the authors reveal how ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
703 g
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804760751
SKU
V9780804760751
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Terence C. Halliday
Terence C. Halliday is Co-Director of the Center on Law and Globalization, the American Bar Foundation-University of Illinois College of Law. Bruce G. Carruthers is Gerald F. and Marjorie G. Fitzgerald Professor of Economic History in the Department of Sociology at Northwestern University. They are coauthors of Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and the United ... Read more

Reviews for Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis
"The first study of its kind, the book offers a theory of legal change to explain why global-local tensions produce implementation gaps. Through its analysis of globalization, this book has lessons for international organizations and developing and transitional economies the world over."— Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment "Halliday and Carruthers's book will take tis place as part of ... Read more

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