After Enron: Lessons for Public Policy.HF5658 2004-024939 0-7425-4433-8 After Enron; lessons for public policy. Title main entry. Ed. by William A. Niskanen William A. Niskanen is chairman of the Cato Institute, a position he has held since 1985 following service on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He was formerly professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley and UCLA and was an assistant director . Rowman & Littlefield, [c]2005 397 p. $34.95 Niskanen (chairman of the Cato Institute "Cato" redirects here. For Cato, see Cato. The Institute's stated mission is "to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets, and peace" by striving "to achieve ) presents the second book to result from his organization's project assessing the major policy lessons to be drawn from the collapse of the energy giant Enron. While the earlier Corporate Aftershock af·ter·shock n. 1. A quake of lesser magnitude, usually one of a series, following a large earthquake in the same area. 2. : The Public Policy Implications of Enron and Other Corporate Disasters (2003) focused on lessons specific to energy markets and the specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. financial instruments used by Enron, this collection of 20 papers consider broader issuers of corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. and regulation, including accounting problems and their alternatives, the failure of the entire Enron auditing chain, provisions of the tax code that influence the character of executive compensation and promote the conditions leading to bankruptcy, and corporate governance rules that have shifted power to corporate managers relative to shareholders over the past few decades. |
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