San Antonio College Library

Provides background and policy guidance on improving consumer safety in imported food, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and toys and other products aimed at children. Considers whether policymakers should approach import safety issues through better funding of traditional interventions, such as regulatory oversight and product liability, or whether this problem poses a different kind of governance challenge, requiring wholly new methods. From publisher...

Commentators, analysts, and academics have long cherished the notion that there is a fundamental contradiction between corporate profit-seeking and ethical or social responsibility. In this powerful, long-awaited response to these critics, John Hood argues that business owners and managers have huge incentives to promote economic and social progress. Moreover, he finds, the vast majority do so. With compelling evidence, Hood demonstrates how the incentives...