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The Irony Of International Business Law: U.S. Progressivism And China's New Laissez Faire, Andrew B. Spalding
The Irony Of International Business Law: U.S. Progressivism And China's New Laissez Faire, Andrew B. Spalding
Law Faculty Publications
As the financial crisis draws U.S. business overseas and developing countries rise in influence, the regulation of international business has never figured so prominendy in federal law. But the dominant paradigm through which academics and policymakers continue to view that law-the so-called Washington Consensus-proves deeply misleading. A more accurate account of the components, origins, and aims of U.S. international business law reveals two striking ironies.
First, in discrete but critical ways, the United States no longer represents the comparatively laissez-faire approach to federal business regulation. Rather, owing to its origins in the Progressive Era, U.S. federal law directs corporations toward …