Between law and markets: is there a role for culture and ethics in financial regulation?

Journal article

The limits of markets as mechanisms for constraining socially suboptimal behavior are well documented. Simultaneously, conventional approaches toward the law and regulation are often crude and ineffective mechanisms for containing the social costs of market failure. So where do we turn when both law and markets fail to live up to their social promise? Two possible answers are culture and ethics. In theory, both can help constrain socially undesirable behavior in the vacuum between law and mar...

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Authors: Awrey, D; Blair, W; Kershaw, D

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Delaware Law School Publisher's website
• Journal: Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Journal website
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 191-191
• Publication date: 2013-01-01
• ISSN: 0364-9490
• Keywords: culture; Delaware; law; corporate; ethics