Insider Trading: Law, Ethics, and Reform (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781316603406)

As long as insider trading has existed, people have been fixated on it. Newspapers give it front page coverage. Cult movies romanticize it. Politicians make or break careers by pillorying, enforcing, and sometimes engaging in it. But, oddly, no one seems to know what's really wrong with insider trading, or - because Congress has never defined it - exactly what it is. This confluence of vehemence and confusion has led to a dysfunctional enforcement regime in the United States that runs counter to its stated goals of efficiency and fairness. In this illuminating book, John P. Anderson summarizes the current state of insider trading law in the US and around the globe. After engaging in a thorough analysis of the practice of insider trading from the normative standpoints of economic efficiency, moral right and wrong, and virtue theory, he offers concrete proposals for much-needed reform.

Author: John P. Anderson
ISBN-10: 1316603407
ISBN-13: 9781316603406
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/07/2018
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.09w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2018