The Rise of Regulatory Capitalism:: The Global Diffusion of a New Order (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Series)

As the papers in this issue of The Annals suggest, the current economic order is anything but free of regulation. Indeed, many policy changes seem to have expanded and extended regulation – in a global sense. The international arena is increasingly legalized, and new layer of regulatory controls is being created at still another level of policymaking as regulatory solutions adopted in North America and Europe have spread across continents.