Insider Trading : Law, Ethics, and Reform (Paperback)

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Law: 1. Early development of insider trading law in the United States; 2. Federal regulation and the modern era; 3. The problem of vagueness in the law; 4. Injustice, incoherence and irrationality ? time for regime change; 5. The global experience; Part II. Ethics: 6. From Cicero to Laidlaw: two thousand years of debate over the propriety of information asymmetries; 7. The efficient, the right, the good, and legal reform; 8. The economics of insider trading; 9. Is insider trading morally wrong? 10. Greed, envy, and insider trading; Part III. Reform: 11. The path forward ? an outline for reform; Index.