Braithwaite (Australian National U., Australia) employs the term "regulatory capitalism" as a means of capturing the current reality of global expansion of privatized markets and regulatory
institutions. In Global Business Regulation (2000), he and a colleague attempted to explain how regulatory capitalism came to be. In this volume, he aims to identify patterns in regulatory
capitalism and their implications for law, politics, and economics. In a sense, the volume is the culmination and summary of his two decades of work in the field of regulation, as he plans to
move on to the subject of peace-building, and it brings together many of the ideas he's written about elsewhere. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
