Full Disclosure : : the Perils and Promise of Transparency

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1. Governance by transparency -- The new power of information -- Transparency informs choice -- Transparency as missed opportunity -- A real-time experiment -- Transparency success and failure -- How the book is organized -- 2. An unlikely policy innovation -- An unplanned invention -- The struggle toward openness -- Why disclosure? -- 3. Designing transparency policies -- Improving on-the-job safety : one goal, many methods -- Disclosure to create incentives for change -- What targeted transparency policies have in common -- Standards, market incentives, or targeted transparency? -- 4. What makes transparency work? -- A complex chain reaction -- New information embedded in user decisions -- New information embedded in discloser decisions -- Obstacles : preferences, biases, and games -- How do transparency policies measure up? -- Crafting effective transparency policies -- 5. What makes transparency sustainable? -- Crisis drives financial disclosure improvements -- Sustainable policies -- The politics of disclosure -- Humble beginnings : prospects for sustainable transparency -- Two illustrations -- Shifting conditions drive changes in sustainability -- 6. International transparency -- How do international transparency policies work? -- Why now? -- From private committee to public mandate : international corporate financial reporting -- Improving a moribund system : international disease reporting -- The limits of international transparency : labeling genetically modified foods -- 7. Toward collaborative transparency -- Innovation at the edge -- Technology expands capacities of users, disclosers, and government -- Four emerging policies -- Challenges to collaborative transparency -- New roles for users, disclosers, and government -- Looking ahead : complementary generations of transparency -- 8. Targeted transparency in the information age -- Two possible futures -- When transparency won't work -- Crafting effective policies -- The road ahead -- Appendix : eighteen major cases -- Targeted transparency in the United States -- Targeted transparency in the international context.

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