Moralizing the Market

How Gaullist France Embraced the Us Model of Securities Regulation
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2485-9
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

A novel historical perspective on how stock markets influence each other internationally.

A nation usually overhauls its financial regulations after a stock market crash or the collapse of its banking system. In 1967, France did something rare. Out of pure political expediency, Gaullist leaders and senior civil servants seized the opportunity offered by an insider-trading case and established an independent commission to regulate the securities market: the Commission des Opérations de Bourse, or COB. Despite their staunch defense of national sovereignty, these reformers drew their inspiration from an American model, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Highlighting the international sources for national reform, Yves-Marie Péréon’s Moralizing the Market explores the dynamics of policy transfer in securities regulation—a subject that has rarely been considered from a historical perspective. That regulation has been used to attract investors and foster market development challenges the view that the French government only attempted to develop the stock market as part of a global wave of deregulation in the 1980s. Indeed, the creation of the COB reveals a great deal about the exercise of power in modern democracies, the interaction between business and government, and the mechanisms of institutional innovation.

Moralizing the Market will appeal to professors and students of economic history, international relations, and political science, as well as business and finance historians, policy makers, and professionals.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Péréon, Yves-Marie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Minister on a Mission
2. "Thieves!"
3. The Paris Bourse in the 1960s: A Basket Case?
4. France Looks at America
5. Drafting the Ordonnance
6. Takeoff
7. The Red Flag over the "Temple of Gold"
8. In Search of Legitimacy
9. Mr. Chatenet Goes to Washington
10. Mission Accomplished?
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Péréon, Yves-Marie
Yves-Marie Péréon is an assistant professor of American history at the University of Rouen-Normandy. He is the author of Franklin D. Roosevelt.