Two recent phenomena--state-owned or controlled corporations in our public markets, and government-owned commercial investment funds--are challenging conventional approaches to the respective roles of government and the private sector.

Introduction

Five years after the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, America's corporations are still considering how to deal with newly empowered shareholders. In addition to specific requirements designed to ensure that corporations comport themselves to minimum standards of corporate governance, American businesses are encountering greater and more sophisticated activist shareholders. The...

In this open letter to SEC chairman Christopher Cox, the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee offers several policy proposals for consideration by the commission.

The authorsanalyze the best available economic data and conclude that American consumers--particularly the less affluent--have benefited tremendously from Wal-Mart's "everyday low prices."

Since becoming chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Christopher Cox has been advancing the idea of a new, electronically based system of disclosure that will both improve the information available to investors and reduce the disclosure and reporting costs of companies. This new system, which the chairman calls...

The Gauer Distinguished Lecture in Law and Public Policy is a major scholarly discourse by a national or world leader. Its primary purpose is to encourage debate by presenting, publishing, and disseminating original work on an important constitutional, legal, or public policy issue...

Press release/summary for the book The Wal-Mart Revoluion, by Richard Vedder and Wendell Cox.

High-speed rail systems are not as efficient as everyone thinks, and when looking for spending cuts, it should be one of the first projects to go.